""" Some messages! """

from acme.motd.api import Message

messages = [
    Message(
        author = "Bertrand Meyer",
        text   = "You can have quality software, or you can have pointer"
        " arithmetic; but you cannot have both at the same time."
    ),

    Message(
        author = "Edsger W. Dijkstra",
        text   = "The effective programmer is keenly aware of the limited size"
        " of his own head."
    ),

    Message(
        author = "Richard Buckminster-Fuller",
        text   = "When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I"
        " think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if"
        " the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong."
    ),

    Message(
        author = "Tom Gilb",
        text   = "If you don't know what you're doing, don't do it on a large"
        " scale."
    ),

    Message(
        author = "Arthur Norman",
        text   = "The best way to implement hard code is never to know you're"
        " implementing it."
    ),

    Message(
        author = "Albert Einstein",
        text   = "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex,"
        " and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage"
        " - to move in the opposite direction."
    ),

    Message(
        author = "Martin Fowler",
        text   = "Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good"
        " programmers write code that humans can understand."
    ),

    Message(
        author = "Chet Hendrickson",
        text   = "The rule is, 'Do the simplest thing that could possibly"
        " work', not the most stupid."
    ),

    Message(
        author = "Ron Jeffries",
        text   = "If you're working sixty hour weeks, you're too tired to be"
        " doing good software."
    ),

    Message(
        author = "Edward Tufte",
        text   = "Clutter and confusion are failures of design, not attributes"
        " of information. There's no such thing as information overload."
    )
]

#### EOF ######################################################################
