The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: "I did not have time." -- WestHost weekly newsletter 14 Feb 2003

C’s great for what it’s great for. -- Ben Hoyts (micropledge)

Well then. How could you possibly live without automated refactoring tools? How else could you coordinate the caterpillar-like motions of all Java’s identical tiny legs, its thousands of similar parts? I’ll tell you how: Ruby is a butterfly. -- Stevey, Refactoring Trilogy, Part 1.

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

Abstraction is a form of data compression: absolutely necessary, because human short-term memory is so small, but the critically important aspect of abstraction is the algorithm that gets you from the name back to the "uncompressed" details. -- Bruce Wilder (blog post comment)

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. -- Frank Lloyd Wright

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. –Steve Jobs

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. –Stephen Covey

Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out. ~John Wooden

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. –Latin Proverb