I had to learn how to teach less, so that more could be learned. -- Tim Gallwey, The inner game of work

Software is like sex: It’s better when it’s free. -- Linus Torvalds

This challenge, viz. the confrontation with the programming task, is so unique that this novel experience can teach us a lot about ourselves. It should deepen our understanding of the processes of design and creation, it should give us better control over the task of organizing our thoughts. If it did not do so, to my taste we should no deserve the computer at all! It has allready taught us a few lessons, and the one I have chosen to stress in this talk is the following. We shall do a much better programming job, provided that we approach the task with a full appreciation of its tremenduous difficulty, provided that we stick to modest and elegant programming languages, provided that we respect the intrinsec limitations of the human mind and approach the task as Very Humble Programmers. -- E. W. Dijkstra, The humble programmer

Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones. Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS. -- Alan Kay

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. -- Frank Lloyd Wright

Good coders code, great reuse. -- http://www.catonmat.net

I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing. ~Martha Stewart

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. –Amelia Earhart

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. –Robert Frost

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him. –Booker T. Washington