It’s a problem if the design doesn’t let you add features at a later date. If you have to redo a program, the hours you spend can cause you to lose your competitive edge. A flexible program demonstrates the difference between a good designer and someone who is just getting a piece of code out. -- Gary Kildall (inventor of CP/M, one of the first OS for the micro).

:nunmap can also be used outside of a monastery. -- Vim user manual

The only constant in the world of hi-tech is change. -- Mark Ward

Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them. -- Alan Perlis

Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. -- Frederick P. Brooks, No Sliver Bullet.

It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration. -- Edsger Dijkstra

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

It is never too late to be what you might have been. –George Eliot

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

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me. –Erma Bombeck