If something isn’t working, you need to look back and figure out what got you excited in the first place. -- David Gorman (ImThere.com)

What Paul does, and does very well, is to take ideas and concepts that are beautiful in the abstract, and brings them down to a real world level. That's a rare talent to find in writing these days. -- Jeff "hemos" Bates, Director, OSDN; Co-evolver, Slashdot

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. -- Mark Twain

I think that a lot of programmers are ignoring an important point when people talk about reducing code repetition on large projects. Part of the idea is that large projects are intrinsically *wrong*. That you should be looking at making a number of smaller projects that are composable, even if you never end up reusing one of those smaller projects elsewhere. -- Dan Nugent

Humans aren't rational -- they rationalize. And I don't just mean "some of them" or "other people". I'm talking about everyone. We have a "logic engine" in our brains, but for the most part, it's not the one in the driver's seat -- instead it operates after the fact, generating rationalizations and excuses for our behavior. -- Paul Buchheit

640K ought to be enough for anybody. -- Bill Gates, 1981

You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame. –Erica Jong

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. –Bill Cosby

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. ~Eleanor Roosevelt

The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors. ~Napoleon Hill