Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them. -- Alan Perlis

Dont give users the opportunity to lock themselves. -- unknown

Abstraction is a form of data compression: absolutely necessary, because human short-term memory is so small, but the critically important aspect of abstraction is the algorithm that gets you from the name back to the "uncompressed" details. -- Bruce Wilder (blog post comment)

If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough. -- Mario Andretti

You will never become a Great Programmer until you acknowledge that you will always be a Terrible Programmer. You will remain a Great Programmer for only as long as you acknowledge that you are still a Terrible Programmer. -- Marc (http://kickin-the-darkness.blogspot.com/)

Philosophy: the finding of bad reasons for what one believes by instinct. -- Brave New World (paraphrased)

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

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. ~Dale Carnegie

Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. ~John R. Wooden

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away. ~Anonymous