For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. -- Aristotle.

Well, if you talk about programming to a group of programmers who use the same language, they can become almost evangelistic about the language. They form a tight-knit community, hold to certain beliefs, and follow certain rules in their programming. It’s like a church with a programming language for a Bible. -- Gary Kildall (inventor of CP/M, one of the first OS for the micro).

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. -- Friedrich Nietzsche

Two people should stay together if together they are better people than they would be individually. -- ?

The problem is that small examples fail to convince, and large examples are too big to follow. -- Steve Yegge.

A society that puts equality -- in the sense of equality of outcome -- ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom. The use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom, and the force, introduced for good purposes, will end up in the hands of people who use it to promote their own interests. -- Milton Friedman (Thomas Sowell: A Conflict of Visions, p130)

Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly. ~Proverb

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. –Abraham Lincoln