C++ is history repeated as tragedy. Java is history repeated as farce. -- Scott McKay
Dont give users the opportunity to lock themselves. -- unknown
C and Lisp stand at opposite ends of the spectrum; they're each great at what the other one sucks at. -- Steve Yegge, Tour de Babel.
We tend to seek easy, single-factor explanations of success. For most important things, though, success actually requires avoiding many separate causes of failure. -- Jared Diamond
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
This challenge, viz. the confrontation with the programming task, is so unique that this novel experience can teach us a lot about ourselves. It should deepen our understanding of the processes of design and creation, it should give us better control over the task of organizing our thoughts. If it did not do so, to my taste we should no deserve the computer at all! It has allready taught us a few lessons, and the one I have chosen to stress in this talk is the following. We shall do a much better programming job, provided that we approach the task with a full appreciation of its tremenduous difficulty, provided that we stick to modest and elegant programming languages, provided that we respect the intrinsec limitations of the human mind and approach the task as Very Humble Programmers. -- E. W. Dijkstra, The humble programmer
Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him. –Booker T. Washington
If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work. ~Thomas J. Watson
You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. –Wayne Gretzky
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. –Ralph Waldo Emerson