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

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

That is one of the most distinctive differences between school and the real world: there is no reward for putting in a good effort. In fact, the whole concept of a "good effort" is a fake idea adults invented to encourage kids. It is not found in nature. -- Paul Graham

All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection. -- Butler Lampson

The good thing about reinventing the wheel is that you get a round one. -- Douglas Crockford (Author of JSON and JsLint)

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

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. –Babe Ruth

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. ~Thomas Jefferson

Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting. ~Anonymous

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