Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones. -- Alan J. Perlis (Epigrams in programming)

Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp. -- Philip Greenspun (Greenspun's Tenth Rule)

No problem should ever have to be solved twice. -- Eric S. Raymond, How to become a hacker

Opportunities that present themselves to you are the consequence -- at least partially -- of being in the right place at the right time. They tend to present themselves when you're not expecting it -- and often when you are engaged in other activities that would seem to preclude you from pursuing them. And they come and go quickly -- if you don't jump all over an opportunity, someone else generally will and it will vanish. -- Marc Andreessen (http://blog.pmarca.com/)

Windows NT addresses 2 Gigabytes of RAM, which is more than any application will ever need. -- Microsoft, on the development of Windows NT, 1992

It is better to be quiet and thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. -- WikiHow

A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty. –Unknown

I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong. –Benjamin Franklin

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. –Robert Frost

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