Just like carpentry, measure twice cut once. -- Super-sizing YouTube with Python (Mike Solomon, [email protected])

It’s hard to grasp abstractions if you don’t understand what they’re abstracting away from. -- Nathan Weizenbaum

Only bad designers blame their failings on the users. -- unknown

I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind. -- Alan Kay

What is truth? -- Pontius Pilate

Everybody makes their own fun. If you don't make it yourself, it ain't fun -- it's entertainment. -- David Mamet (as relayed by Joss Whedon)

Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting. ~Anonymous

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, “I’m possible!” –Audrey Hepburn

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. ~Steve Jobs

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. –Martin Luther King Jr.