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

We tend to seek easy, single-factor explanations of success. For most important things, though, success actually requires avoiding many separate causes of failure. -- Jared Diamond

Everything that can be invented has been invented. -- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899

I'm always happy to trade performance for readability as long as the former isn't already scarce. -- Crayz (Commentor on blog.raganwald.com)

I think it is wise, and only honest, to warn you that my goal is immodest. It is not my purpose to "transfer knowledge" to you that, subsequently, you can forget again. My purpose is no less than to effectuate in each of you a noticeable, irreversable change. I want you to gain, for the rest of your lives, the insight that beautiful proofs are not "found" by trial anf error but are the result of a consciously applied design discipline. I want you to raise your quality standards. I mean, if 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself "Dijkstra would not have liked this", well, that would be enough immortality for me. -- E. W. Dijkstra

Do not accept anything because it comes from the mouth of a respected person. -- Buddha

You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them. ~Michael Jordan

Teach thy tongue to say, I do not know, and thous shalt progress. –Maimonides

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. ~Margaret Thatcher

Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless. –Jamie Paolinetti