If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. -- Rush (Freewill)

Sometimes a man with too broad a perspective reveals himself as having no real perspective at all. A man who tries too hard to see every side may be a man who is trying to avoid choosing any side. A man who tries too hard to seek a deeper truth may be trying to hide from the truth he already knows. That is not a sign of intellectual sophistication and "great thinking". It is a demonstration of moral degeneracy and cowardice. -- Steven Den Beste

If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as lines produced but as lines spent. -- Edsger Dijkstra

Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming. -- Brian Kernigan

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it's a duck. -- Official definition of "duck typing"

C and Lisp stand at opposite ends of the spectrum; they're each great at what the other one sucks at. -- Steve Yegge, Tour de Babel.

The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it. –Chinese Proverb

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. –Bill Cosby

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. –Steve Jobs

Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless. –Jamie Paolinetti