Students should be evaluated on how well they can achieve the goals they strived to achieve within a realistic context. Students need to learn to do things, not know things. -- Roger Schank, Engines for Education

You will never become a Great Programmer until you acknowledge that you will always be a Terrible Programmer. You will remain a Great Programmer for only as long as you acknowledge that you are still a Terrible Programmer. -- Marc (http://kickin-the-darkness.blogspot.com/)

Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. -- Donald Knuth

To iterate is human, to recurse divine. -- L. Peter Deutsch

Side projects are less masturbatory than reading RSS, often more useful than MobileMe, more educational than the comments on Reddit, and usually more fun than listening to keynotes. -- Chris Wanstrath

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. -- John Lennon

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all. ~Dale Carnegie

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. ~John D. Rockefeller

Life isn't about getting and having, it's about giving and being. –Kevin Kruse

Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning. ~Robert Kiyosaki