Always slay the closest tiger first.

Tiger! Tiger! burning bright / In the forests of the night, / What immortal hand or eye / Could frame thy fearful symmetry? -William Blake-

This is as bad as it gets … but don’t count on it.

Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it. -Dan Quayle-

Stay focused on the goal. But, when you’re up to your armpits in alligators sometimes it is hard to remember you came here to drain the swamp.

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children. -Dietrich Bonhoeffer-

Yesterday it worked … Today it is not working … Windows is like that. (error messages in haiku)

It is impossible to make a program foolproof because fools are so ingenious.

Brooks’ Law: Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.

How do you tell a communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin. -Ronald Reagan-