There really is no learning without doing. -- Roger Schank, Engines for Education

Mistakes were made. -- Ronald Reagan

Its a shame that the students of our generation grew up with windows and mice because that tainted our mindset not to think in terms of powerful tools. Some of us are just so tainted that we will never recover. -- Jeffrey Mark Siskind in comp.lang.lisp

Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all sentences short or avoid all detail and treat subjects only in outline, but that every word tell. -- William Strunk, Jr. (The Elements of Style)

Write it properly first. It's easier to make a correct program fast, than to make a fast program correct. -- http://www.cpax.org.uk/prg/

You can have premature generalization as well as premature optimization. -- Bjarne Stroustrup

Believe you can and you’re halfway there. –Theodore Roosevelt

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. –Leonardo da Vinci

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. –Arthur Ashe

If you are not willing to risk the usual you will have to settle for the ordinary. ~Jim Rohn