A no uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a yes merely uttered to please or what is worse, to avoid trouble. -- Mahatma Gandhi

Remember, always be yourself ... unless you suck! -- Joss Whedon

The lesson of the story might appear to be that self-interested and ambitious people in power are often the cause of wastefulness in developing countries. But self-interested and ambitious people are in positions of power, great and small, all over the world. In many places, they are restrained by the law, the press, and democratic opposition. Cameroon's tragedy is that there is nothing to hold self-interest in check. -- Tim Harford

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it's a duck. -- Official definition of "duck typing"

It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC. As potential programmers, they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration. -- E. W. Dijkstra

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results. -- Winston Churchill

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. –Les Brown

There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. –Aristotle

Education costs money. But then so does ignorance. –Sir Claus Moser

Dream big and dare to fail. –Norman Vaughan