The problem is that small examples fail to convince, and large examples are too big to follow. -- Steve Yegge.

Getting back to failing early, I've learned it's important to completely fail. Get fired. Shoot the project, then burn its corpse. Melt the CVS repository and microwave the backup CDs. When things go wrong, I've often tried to play the hero from start to finish. Guess what? Some projects are doomed no matter what. Some need skills I don't possess. And some need a fresh face. -- Reginald Braithwaite

The hardest part of design ... is keeping features out. -- Donald Norman

The acts of the mind, wherein it exerts its power over simple ideas, are chiefly these three: 1. Combining several simple ideas into one compound one, and thus all complex ideas are made. 2. The second is bringing two ideas, whether simple or complex, together, and setting them by one another so as to take a view of them at once, without uniting them into one, by which it gets all its ideas of relations. 3. The third is separating them from all other ideas that accompany them in their real existence: this is called abstraction, and thus all its general ideas are made. -- John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690)

In order to understand what another person is saying, you must assume that it is true and try to find out what it could be true of. -- George Miller

Il y a très loin de la velléité à la volnt, de la volonté à la résolution, de la résolution au choix des moyens, du choix ds moyens à lapplication. -- Jean-François Paul de Gondi de Retz

Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock and the door will be opened for you. –Jesus

It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings. –Ann Landers

You can do anything, but not everything. ~Anonymous

Opportunities don’t happen, you create them. ~Chris Grosser