I guess, when you're drunk, every woman looks beautiful and every language looks (like) a Lisp :) -- Lament, #[email protected]

And if you go too far up, abstraction-wise, you run out of oxygen. Sometimes smart thinkers just don't know when to stop, and they create these absurd, all-encompassing, high-level pictures of the universe that are all good and fine, but don't actually mean anything at all. -- Joel Spolsky

Talkers are no good doers. -- William Shakespeare, "Henry VI"

The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it [Leadership]. -- Dwight D. Enseinhover.

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. -- Arthur C. Clarke

You can have premature generalization as well as premature optimization. -- Bjarne Stroustrup

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

Trust because you are willing to accept the risk, not because it’s safe or certain. ~Anonymous

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. –Pablo Picasso

Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. ~Winston Churchill