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

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

To iterate is human, to recurse divine. -- L. Peter Deutsch

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. -- Galileo Galilei

It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC. As potential programmers, they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration. -- E. W. Dijkstra

C++ is history repeated as tragedy. Java is history repeated as farce. -- Scott McKay

You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them. ~Michael Jordan

The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself--the invisible battles inside all of us--that's where it's at. –Jesse Owens

You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals. ~Booker T. Washington

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. ~Eleanor Roosevelt