If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. -- Frank Lloyd Wright

But what is it good for? -- Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, commenting on the microchip, 1968

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God. -- Alan J. Perlis (Epigrams in programming)

Well, if you talk about programming to a group of programmers who use the same language, they can become almost evangelistic about the language. They form a tight-knit community, hold to certain beliefs, and follow certain rules in their programming. It’s like a church with a programming language for a Bible. -- Gary Kildall (inventor of CP/M, one of the first OS for the micro).

And if you go too far up, abstraction-wise, you run out of oxygen. Sometimes smart thinkers just don't know when to stop, and they create these absurd, all-encompassing, high-level pictures of the universe that are all good and fine, but don't actually mean anything at all. -- Joel Spolsky

Work as intensely as you play and play as intensely as you work. -- Eric S. Raymond, How To Be A Hacker

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

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it. ~Washington Irving

I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong. –Benjamin Franklin

The best revenge is massive success. –Frank Sinatra