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

Show, don't tell. -- unknown

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity. And I'm not so sure about the former. -- Albert Einstein

The best way to learn to live with our limitations is to know them. --E. W. Dijkstra, The humble programmer

We really have to get over the idea that some stuff is just worth knowing even if you never do anything with it. Human memories happily erase stuff that has no purpose, so why try to fill up children's heads with such stuff? -- Roger Schank, Engines for Education

The proof is by reductio ad absurdum, and reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician’s finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess gambit: a chess player may offer the sacrifice of a pawn or even a piece, but a mathematician offers the game. -- G. H. Hardy

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. –Albert Einstein

If you do what you always did, you will get what you always got. ~Anonymous

Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock and the door will be opened for you. –Jesus

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