It’s better to wear out than rust out - Frances Willard
Nice quote! This speaks to how I hope to spend my summer. I won’t be taking classes this summer for several reasons, the primary being I need to the time to build up my school fund for next year. (Xavier’s a bit expensive [...]

Zig Ziglar has said “Economists have rightly predicted 36 out of the last 2 recessions.”
I love it!
[Disclaimer: I can't confirm the authenticity of this quote and I've seen several versions of it (media instead of economists and different numbers), but it's still funny and insightful, so I posted it anyway. ]

If two people just alike get married, one of you is unnecessary.–Larry Burkett

Just because there aren’t enough lists out there this time of year and I should be studying instead of blogging, here are a whole slew of motivational quotes:
Top 100 Motivational Quotes.
The “top” 10 are:

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.- Aristotle
The best way out is [...]

The book for my management class, Developing Management Skills, has many quotes in the margins of the book. Here are some good ones from the “teams” chapter.
“A camel is a horse put together by a committee.”
–Unknown
“If you see a snake, just kill it. Do not appoint a committee on snakes.”
–Ross Perot (former US [...]

Saw this quote on
Josh’s Xanga, from the book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer.
“Does it break my heart, of course, every moment of every day, into more pieces than my heart was made of, I never thought of myself as quiet, much less silent, I never thought about things at all, [...]

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
–Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art…
It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
–C. S. Lewis

Until I find some time to write another post, I’d thought I’d pick out some of my favorite “
Programming Quotations.”

It’s hard enough to find an error in your code when you’re looking for it; it’s even harder when you’ve assumed your code is error-free.–Steve McConnell
If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the [...]

Quote from:
In the Meantime: The Practice of Proactive Waiting by Rob Brendle.
Over the past several years, I have come to believe that the sincerely meant and dramatically expressed petitions of my early adulthood were entirely off the mark. In fact, it’s clear to me now that my pleas for God to use me [...]