I come to SO mainly to fail, and I do that quite successfully. ~Eugene

“Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it. ” ~ Alan Perlis, “Epigrams in Programming”

The mark of a mature programmer is willingness to throw out code you spent time on when you realize it's pointless. ~ Bram Cohen

“Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.” ― Seneca

"If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions - for the fun of it - then one day you'll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one! And that's the way to become a computer scientist." -Richard Philip Feynman