Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them. -- Alan Perlis

If something isn’t working, you need to look back and figure out what got you excited in the first place. -- David Gorman (ImThere.com)

I guess, when you're drunk, every woman looks beautiful and every language looks (like) a Lisp :) -- Lament, #[email protected]

If there is a will, there is a way. -- unknown

I think it is wise, and only honest, to warn you that my goal is immodest. It is not my purpose to "transfer knowledge" to you that, subsequently, you can forget again. My purpose is no less than to effectuate in each of you a noticeable, irreversable change. I want you to gain, for the rest of your lives, the insight that beautiful proofs are not "found" by trial anf error but are the result of a consciously applied design discipline. I want you to raise your quality standards. I mean, if 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself "Dijkstra would not have liked this", well, that would be enough immortality for me. -- E. W. Dijkstra

To do something well you have to love it. So to the extent you can preserve hacking as something you love, you're likely to do it well. Try to keep the sense of wonder you had about programming at age 14. If you're worried that your current job is rotting your brain, it probably is. -- Paul Graham.

Teach thy tongue to say, I do not know, and thous shalt progress. –Maimonides

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If you can dream it, you can achieve it. –Zig Ziglar

Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock and the door will be opened for you. –Jesus