Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. -- Ferris Bueller

Premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming. -- Donald Knuth

We tend to seek easy, single-factor explanations of success. For most important things, though, success actually requires avoiding many separate causes of failure. -- Jared Diamond

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. -- Colin Powell

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. -- Alfred North Whitehead (Introduction to Mathematics)

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)

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. –Pablo Picasso

If you genuinely want something, don’t wait for it — teach yourself to be impatient. ~Gurbaksh Chahal

Teach thy tongue to say, I do not know, and thous shalt progress. –Maimonides

It is never too late to be what you might have been. –George Eliot