To the optimist, the glass is half full. To the pessimist, the glass is half empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be. -- author unknown (quoted in `Robust Systems', Gerald Jay Suseman)

Mistakes were made. -- Ronald Reagan

Just like carpentry, measure twice cut once. -- Super-sizing YouTube with Python (Mike Solomon, [email protected])

Programming is the art of figuring out what you want so precisely that even a machine can do it. -- Some guy who isn't famous

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it. -- Alan J. Perlis (Epigrams in programming)

Humans differ from animals to the degree that they are not merely an end result of their conditioning, but are able to reflect on their experiences and strategies, and apply insight to make changes in the way they live to modify the outcome. -- SlideTrombone (comment on "Programming can ruin your life")

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. ~Eleanor Roosevelt

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.~ Anatole France

If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten. –Tony Robbins

You can do anything, but not everything. ~Anonymous