Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called an engineering discipline. -- Bill Clinton

Mastering isn’t a survival instinct; it’s an urge to excel. Mastering is one of the experiences that delineates us from animals. It is striving to be more tomorrow than we are today; to perfectly pitch the ball over home plate; to craft the perfect sentence in an article; to open the oven and feel the warm, richly-scented cloud telling you dinner is going to be absolutely extraordinary. We humans crave perfection, to be masters of our domain, to distinguish ourselves by sheer skill and prowess. -- Joesgoals.com

When you’ve got the code all ripped apart, it’s like a car that’s all disassembled. You’ve got all the parts tying all over your garage and you have to replace the broken part or the car will never run. It’s not fun until the code gets back to the baseline again. -- Gary Kildall (inventor of CP/M, one of the first OS for the micro).

The opposite of love is not hate, it is indifference. -- Elie Wiesel

The wonderful and frustrating thing about understanding yourself is that nobody can do it for you. -- BetterExplained.com

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. -- Aristotle.

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter. ~Francis Chan

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. ~Thomas A. Edison

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.~ Anatole France

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. –Napoleon Hill