It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years. -- John Von Neumann, circa 1949

Philosophy: the finding of bad reasons for what one believes by instinct. -- Brave New World (paraphrased)

Remember that you are humans in the first place and only after that programmers. -- Alexandru Vancea

Any code of your own that you haven’t looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else. -- Eagleson’s Law

Within a computer natural language is unnatural. -- Alan J. Perlis (Epigrams in programming)

Opportunities that present themselves to you are the consequence -- at least partially -- of being in the right place at the right time. They tend to present themselves when you're not expecting it -- and often when you are engaged in other activities that would seem to preclude you from pursuing them. And they come and go quickly -- if you don't jump all over an opportunity, someone else generally will and it will vanish. -- Marc Andreessen (http://blog.pmarca.com/)

Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to doDon’t wish it were easier, wish you were better. ~Jim Rohn

We become what we think about. –Earl Nightingale

It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings. –Ann Landers

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne