Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster!

--Wirth's Law

Mend your speech a litte,
Lest you may mar your fortunes.

--William Shakespeare, King Lear

Everything should be as simple as possible--but no simpler.

--Albert Einstein

No problem is so complicated that you cannot make it more complicated.

--Andrew Grove

Where there is no vision, the people perish.

--Proverbs 29:18(a)

Let all things be done decently and in order.

--1 Corinthians 14:40

Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry.

--James 1:19(b)

God gave man two ears and one tongue so that we listen twice as much as we speak.

--Arab proverb

Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.

--Bill Hayes

Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do.
Strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do.

--Savielly Tartakover (Polish chess Grand Master)

"Creativity is the inability to follow the rules of others."

--Cliff Stoll

"It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data."

-- Sherlock Holmes in "A Scandal in Bohemia," by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

"In English any noun can be verbed."

-- unknown

ON CHANGE: "The real difficulty in changing the course of any enterprise lies not in developing new ideas, but in escaping the old ones."

--J.M. Keynes

AND SO: "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man."

--George Bernard Shaw

All jobs are equally easy to the person not doing the work.

-- Holt's Law

You can't do anything without having to do something else first.

-- Belefant's Law

While in theory, theory and practice are the same, in practice they often differ.

-- anonymous

"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers."

-- 2 King Henry VI, Act 4, Scene 2