Programming in JBoss Environment and JBoss Server 5.1 (6.0) Administration

Computers are man's attempt at designing a cat: it does whatever it wants, whenever it wants, and rarely ever at the right time.

Asking for efficiency and adaptability in the same program is like asking for a beautiful and modest wife. Although beauty and modesty have been known to occur in the same woman, we'll probably have to settle for one or the other. At least that's better than neither.

There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.