Never do the impossible. People will expect you to do it forever after. -- pigsandfishes.com

Fools! Don't they know that tears are a woman's most effective weapon? -- Catwoman (The Batman TV Series, episode 83)

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

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. -- Benjamin Franklin

This challenge, viz. the confrontation with the programming task, is so unique that this novel experience can teach us a lot about ourselves. It should deepen our understanding of the processes of design and creation, it should give us better control over the task of organizing our thoughts. If it did not do so, to my taste we should no deserve the computer at all! It has allready taught us a few lessons, and the one I have chosen to stress in this talk is the following. We shall do a much better programming job, provided that we approach the task with a full appreciation of its tremenduous difficulty, provided that we stick to modest and elegant programming languages, provided that we respect the intrinsec limitations of the human mind and approach the task as Very Humble Programmers. -- E. W. Dijkstra, The humble programmer

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. -- Mark Twain

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. ~Steve Jobs

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. –Michael Jordan

Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. –Joshua J. Marine

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it. ~Washington Irving