No art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to excel in it. -- Alberti

Hence my urgent advice to all of you to reject the morals of the bestseller society and to find, to start with, your reward in your own fun. This is quite feasible, for the challenge of simplification is so fascinating that, if we do our job properly, we shall have the greatest fun in the world. -- E. W. Dijkstra, On the nature of computing science.

I'm always happy to trade performance for readability as long as the former isn't already scarce. -- Crayz (Commentor on blog.raganwald.com)

It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration. -- Edsger Dijkstra

Only make new mistakes. -- Phil Dourado

We really have to get over the idea that some stuff is just worth knowing even if you never do anything with it. Human memories happily erase stuff that has no purpose, so why try to fill up children's heads with such stuff? -- Roger Schank, Engines for Education

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. –Alice Walker

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. –Benjamin Franklin

The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones that do. ~Anonymous

Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them. ~Vaibhav Shah