When your enemy is making a very serious mistake, don't be impolite and disturb him. -- Napoleon Bonaparte (allegedly)

Mistakes were made. -- Ronald Reagan

Simplicity and pragmatism beat complexity and theory any day. -- Dennis (blog comment)

One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that–lacking zero–they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs. -- Robert Firth

The programmer must seek both perfection of part and adequacy of collection. -- Alan J. Perlis

Be the change you want to see in the world. -- Mahatma Gandhi

Do what you can, where you are, with what you have. –Teddy Roosevelt

The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same. ~Colin R. Davis

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. ~Herman Melville

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.~ Oscar Wilde