We tend to regret things we didn’t do over things we did do.

— Several different authors in Wisdom Trove

Ask “What if?” and follow through…

Life is too short to read a bad book.

— James Joyce

How many bugs and wasted CPU cycles and instances of human frustration (not to mention bad design) have resulted from that one small shortcut about 40 years ago?

Keep that in mind next time you want to cut a corner in your code.

Rob Pike (via A lesson in shortcuts. Long ago, as the design of the Unix… )

You can measure a man’s character by the choices he makes under pressure

Winston Churchill