A person won't become proficient at something until he or she has done it many times. In other words., if you want someone to be really good at building a software system, he or she will have to have built 10 or more systems of that type. -- Philip Greenspun

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent. -- Eleanor Roosevelt

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. -- Hans Hofmann

C++ is like teenage sex: Everybody is talking about it all the time, only few are really doing it. -- unknown

You will never become a Great Programmer until you acknowledge that you will always be a Terrible Programmer. You will remain a Great Programmer for only as long as you acknowledge that you are still a Terrible Programmer. -- Marc (http://kickin-the-darkness.blogspot.com/)

I’d rather write programs to write programs than write programs. -- Richard Sites

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. –Napoleon Hill

Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart. – Ancient Indian Proverb

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. ~Ralph Nader

People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy. ~Tony Robbins