An interpreter raises the machine to the level of the user program; a compiler lowers the user program to the level of the machine language. -- SICP
The president was visiting NASA headquarters and stopped to talk to a man who was holding a mop. “And what do you do?” he asked. The man, a janitor, replied, “I’m helping to put a man on the moon, sir.” -- The little book of leadership
The most damaging phrase in the language is, It's always been done that way. -- Rear Admiral Grace Hopper
What we choose to fight is so tiny! What fights us is so great! ... When we win it's with small things, and the triumph itself makes us small. ... Winning does not tempt that man. This is how he grows: by being defeated, decisively, by constantly greater beings. -- Rainer Maria Rilke, The Man Watching.
Processors don't get better so that they can have more free time. Processors get better so _you_ can have more free time. -- LeCamarade (freeshells.ch)
If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution. -- Robert Sewell
You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. ~Steve Jobs
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me. –Erma Bombeck
Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. –Joshua J. Marine
In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. –Bill Cosby