The worst form of failure is the failure to try.
Gregorio Dicki
The time of a man's life is as a point; the substance of it ever flowing, thesense obscure; and the whole composition of the body tending to corruption. ― Marcus Aurelius, "The Meditations", Book II
Seminars, n.: From "semi" and "arse", hence, any half-assed discussion.
A little retrospection shows that although many fine, useful software systemshave been designed by committees and built as part of multipart projects,those software systems that have excited passionate fans are those that arethe products of one or a few designing minds, great designers. Consider Unix,APL, Pascal, Modula, the Smalltalk interface, even Fortran; and contrast themwith Cobol, PL/I, Algol, MVS/370, and MS-DOS. ― Fred Brooks, Jr.
Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us. ― Tolstoy
