There is one meaning [for static in C]: a global variable that is invisible outside the current scope, be it a function or a file. -- Paolo Bonzini

The best way to learn to live with our limitations is to know them. --E. W. Dijkstra, The humble programmer

Measure everything you can about the product, and you'll start seeing patterns. -- Max Levchin, PayPal founder, Talk at StartupSchool2007

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results. -- Winston Churchill

It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years. -- John Von Neumann, circa 1949

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

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. –Henry Ford

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing. ~Dale Carnegie

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it. ~Washington Irving

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul. ~Ella Wheeler Wilcox