Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. -- Martin Golding

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)

A little learning is a dangerous thing. -- Alexander Pope

The acts of the mind, wherein it exerts its power over simple ideas, are chiefly these three: 1. Combining several simple ideas into one compound one, and thus all complex ideas are made. 2. The second is bringing two ideas, whether simple or complex, together, and setting them by one another so as to take a view of them at once, without uniting them into one, by which it gets all its ideas of relations. 3. The third is separating them from all other ideas that accompany them in their real existence: this is called abstraction, and thus all its general ideas are made. -- John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690)

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. -- Thomas Jefferson

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

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. –Babe Ruth

Thinking should become your capital asset, no matter whatever ups and downs you come across in your life. ~Dr. APJ Kalam

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

Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. ~Lolly Daskal