Talkers are no good doers. -- William Shakespeare, "Henry VI"

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?

C++ is like teenage sex: Everybody is talking about it all the time, only few are really doing it. -- unknown

Everything that can be invented has been invented. -- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899

Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte. (I have made this letter so long only because I did not have the leisure to make it shorter.) -- Blaise Pascal (Lettres Provinciales)

Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming. -- Brian Kernigan

Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument. ~Anonymous

You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. –Christopher Columbus

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne

You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them. ~Michael Jordan