Remember: you are alone. Every time you can get help from someone, it is an opportunity: you should eagerly size it. But then, promptly return to normal mode: you are alone and you must be prepared to solve every problem yourself. -- Eric KEDJI

A person won't become proficient at something until he or she has done it many times. In other words., if you want someone to be really good at building a software system, he or she will have to have built 10 or more systems of that type. -- Philip Greenspun

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. -- Mark Twain

Have you ever noticed that when you sit down to write something, half the ideas that end up in it are ones you thought of while writing it? The same thing happens with software. Working to implement one idea gives you more ideas. -- Paul Graham, The other road ahead.

Simplicity and pragmatism beat complexity and theory any day. -- Dennis (blog comment)

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. -- Benjamin Franklin

You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction. ~George Lorimer

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it. ~Washington Irving

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. ~Eleanor Roosevelt

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. –Benjamin Franklin