Premature abstraction is an equally grevious sin as premature optimization. -- Keith Devens

We really have to get over the idea that some stuff is just worth knowing even if you never do anything with it. Human memories happily erase stuff that has no purpose, so why try to fill up children's heads with such stuff? -- Roger Schank, Engines for Education

That is the inevitable human response. We’re reluctant to believe that great discoveries are in the air. We want to believe that great discoveries are in our heads—and to each party in the multiple the presence of the other party is invariably cause for suspicion. -- Malcolm Gladwell, Who says big ideas are rare?

A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing. -- Alan Perlis

Omit needless words. -- William Strunk, Jr. (The Elements of Style)

Processors don't get better so that they can have more free time. Processors get better so _you_ can have more free time. -- LeCamarade (freeshells.ch)

Either you run the day, or the day runs you. –Jim Rohn

Your problem isn’t the problem. Your reaction is the problem. ~Anonymous

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him. –Booker T. Washington

Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. –Eleanor Roosevelt