Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones. Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS. -- Alan Kay

1 - Creativity and innovation always build on the past. 2 - The past always tries to control the creativity that builds on it. 3 - Free societies enable the future by limiting the past. 4 - Ours is less and less a free society. -- Lawrence Lessig, Free Culture.

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

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

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are always cocksure and the intelligent are always filled with doubt. -- Bertrand Russell

Fools! Don't they know that tears are a woman's most effective weapon? -- Catwoman (The Batman TV Series, episode 83)

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear. –Rosa Parks

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.~ Oscar Wilde

There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. –Aristotle

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. –Chinese Proverb