Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter. -- Eric Raymond

You can’t get to version 500 if you don’t start with a version 1. -- BetterExplained.com

If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in. -- Edsger W. Dijkstra

Processors don't get better so that they can have more free time. Processors get better so _you_ can have more free time. -- LeCamarade (freeshells.ch)

Getting back to failing early, I've learned it's important to completely fail. Get fired. Shoot the project, then burn its corpse. Melt the CVS repository and microwave the backup CDs. When things go wrong, I've often tried to play the hero from start to finish. Guess what? Some projects are doomed no matter what. Some need skills I don't possess. And some need a fresh face. -- Reginald Braithwaite

Sound methodology can empower and liberate the creative mind; it cannot inflame or inspire the drudge. -- Frederick P. Brooks, No Sliver Bullet.

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out. ~Robert Collier

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. –Amelia Earhart

I would rather die of passion than of boredom. –Vincent van Gogh

I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong. –Benjamin Franklin