If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough. -- Alan Kay

First learn computer science and all the theory. Next develop a programming style. Then forget all that and just hack. -- George Carrette

A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing. -- Alan Perlis

A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure. -- Hugh Kingsmill

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. -- Alfred North Whitehead (Introduction to Mathematics)

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight. -- Bill Gates

Your problem isn’t the problem. Your reaction is the problem. ~Anonymous

I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse. –Florence Nightingale

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, “I’m possible!” –Audrey Hepburn