I am strongest for His cause when I am weakest for mine. --Stephen Moitozo II

I know the statistics. I know that five students at King Middle School in Portland, Maine recently admitted they are sexually active. I know that there were at least 17 pregnancies in Portland middle schools in the last four years. I also know that the Portland School Committee decided that the risk of middle school aged girls getting pregnant was too high and they should make birth control available. Yes, middle schoolers--who can be as young as eleven!

Sexual contact with a minor is still illegal, right? What if every time a school nurse heard about a minor who is sexually active we make the police investigate and prosecute? Well, you can forget that in Portland. Instead their solution is to hand out contraception to under age children in order prevent bad stuff from happening to children who make bad choices.

A man is about as big as the things that make him angry. --Winston Churchill

If you're not able to articulate your stakeholders' needs in writing to a level of detail that can be addressed with technology, then you're not finished capturing the requirements for your project. --Holt Adams

If the client does not understand the business, there is little chance the architect can effectively define the system requirements. -- Andras Szakal

There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all. --Peter Drucker

The word "hope" I take for faith; and indeed hope is nothing else but the constancy of faith. --John Calvin

He who merits praise he never receives is better off than he who receives praise he never merits. --Unknown

Someone recently asked me, "Do you feel different now that you have you're black belt? Do you feel like you've arrived? Is it cool?" As I thought about the question I realized that I don't feel like I've arrived at all. In fact, I would liken my feelings to a person who is lining up to run a marathon, not like the runner who has finished the marathon. In martial arts, as with any art that one might seek to master (relationships, painting, photography, writing, hunting, etc), there is always more to learn and refine. We chase a goal that is unreachable, perfection. Yet we still seek it. I'm convinced that this is why people talk so much about enjoying the journey.

This is not right, it is not even wrong. --Unknown