If there is a will, there is a way. -- unknown

Mastering isn’t a survival instinct; it’s an urge to excel. Mastering is one of the experiences that delineates us from animals. It is striving to be more tomorrow than we are today; to perfectly pitch the ball over home plate; to craft the perfect sentence in an article; to open the oven and feel the warm, richly-scented cloud telling you dinner is going to be absolutely extraordinary. We humans crave perfection, to be masters of our domain, to distinguish ourselves by sheer skill and prowess. -- Joesgoals.com

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

Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called an engineering discipline. -- Bill Clinton

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

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)

Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable. ~Theodore N. Vail

If you don’t value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents- start charging for it. ~Kim Garst

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. –Alice Walker

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. –Maya Angelou