The most damaging phrase in the language is, It's always been done that way. -- Rear Admiral Grace Hopper

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.

Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. -- Cited by Randy Pausch

Simple things should be simple. Complex things should be possible. -- Alan Kay

Good artists copy. Great artists steal. -- Pablo Picasso

Students should be evaluated on how well they can achieve the goals they strived to achieve within a realistic context. Students need to learn to do things, not know things. -- Roger Schank, Engines for Education

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

You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction. ~George Lorimer

Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to doDon’t wish it were easier, wish you were better. ~Jim Rohn

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. –Leonardo da Vinci