To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones. Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS. -- Alan Kay

Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it. -- Alan Kay

Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration. -- Stan Kelly-Bootle

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. -- Rush (Freewill)

A CS professor once explained recursion as follows: A child couldn't sleep, so her mother told her a story about a little frog, who couldn't sleep, so the frog's mother told her a story about a little bear, who couldn't sleep, so the bear's mother told her a story about a little weasel... who fell asleep. ...and the little bear fell asleep; ...and the little frog fell asleep; ...and the child fell asleep. -- everything2.com

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. ~Mark Twain

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. ~Herman Melville

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. –Henry David Thoreau

The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. –Ayn Rand