If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it's a duck. -- Official definition of "duck typing"

What is truth? -- Pontius Pilate

We remember what we learn when we care about performing better and when we believe that what we have been asked to do is representative of reality. -- Roger Schank, Engines for Education

Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming. -- Brian Kernigan

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

Hire people smarter than you. Work with people smarter than you. Listen to them. Let them lead you. Take the blame for all failures, give away the credit for all successes. -- How to fail: 25 secrets learned through failure

Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. ~John R. Wooden

I would rather die of passion than of boredom. –Vincent van Gogh

Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting. ~Anonymous

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe