It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission. -- Rear Admiral Dr. Grace Hopper

Understanding why C++ is the way it is helps a programmer use it well. A deep understanding of a tool is essential for an expert craftsman. -- Bjarne Stroustrap

There are many ways to avoid success in life, but the most sure-fire just might be procrastination. -- Hara Estroff Marano.

Linux is only free if your time has no value. -- Jamie Zawinski

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. -- Blaise Pascal (attributed)

Understanding why C++ is the way it is helps a programmer use it well. A deep understanding of a tool is essential for an expert craftsman. -- Bjarne Stroustrap

The starting point of all achievement is desire. ~Napolean Hill

When you stop chasing the wrong things you give the right things a chance to catch you. ~Lolly Daskal

We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained. –Marie Curie

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absense of fear. ~Mark Twain