Within a computer natural language is unnatural. -- Alan J. Perlis (Epigrams in programming)

If I tell you I'm good, you would probably think I'm boasting. If I tell you I'm no good, you know I'm lying. -- Bruce Lee

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. -- Alfred North Whitehead (Introduction to Mathematics)

Lisp programmers know the value of everything but the cost of nothing. -- Alan J. Perlis

It was Edison who said ‘1% inspiration, 99% perspiration’. That may have been true a hundred years ago. These days it's ‘0.01% inspiration, 99.99% perspiration’, and the inspiration is the easy part. -- Linux Torvalds

Remember that you are humans in the first place and only after that programmers. -- Alexandru Vancea

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

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

If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work. ~Thomas J. Watson

Believe you can and you’re halfway there. –Theodore Roosevelt