Saying that Java is nice because it works on all OSes is like saying that anal sex is nice because it works on all genders. -- Alanna

A person won't become proficient at something until he or she has done it many times. In other words., if you want someone to be really good at building a software system, he or she will have to have built 10 or more systems of that type. -- Philip Greenspun

I had to learn how to teach less, so that more could be learned. -- Tim Gallwey, The inner game of work

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)

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. -- Thomas Edison

Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it. -- Alan Kay

You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame. –Erica Jong

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. –Dalai Lama

The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same. ~Colin R. Davis

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. ~Truman Capote