For complex systems, the compiler and development environment need to be in the same language that its supporting. It's the only way to grow code. -- Alan Kay

It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission. -- Rear Admiral Dr. Grace Hopper

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. -- Mark Twain

Premature abstraction is an equally grevious sin as premature optimization. -- Keith Devens

Are you willing to wear your white belt? -- George Leonard, Mastery.

To the optimist, the glass is half full. To the pessimist, the glass is half empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be. -- author unknown (quoted in `Robust Systems', Gerald Jay Suseman)

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. ~Ralph Nader

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absense of fear. ~Mark Twain

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. –Amelia Earhart

If you can dream it, you can achieve it. –Zig Ziglar