Well then. How could you possibly live without automated refactoring tools? How else could you coordinate the caterpillar-like motions of all Java’s identical tiny legs, its thousands of similar parts? I’ll tell you how: Ruby is a butterfly. -- Stevey, Refactoring Trilogy, Part 1.

Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration. -- Stan Kelly-Bootle

An interpreter raises the machine to the level of the user program; a compiler lowers the user program to the level of the machine language. -- SICP

As builders and creators finding the perfect solution should not be our main goal. We should find the perfect problem. -- Isaac (blog comment)

What is truth? -- Pontius Pilate

The only thing a man should ever be 100% convinced of is his own ignorance. -- DJ MacLean

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. ~Margaret Thatcher

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. ~Eleanor Roosevelt

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. ~Eleanor Roosevelt

To be successful you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can’t just accept the ones you like. ~Mike Gafka