Programmers are in a race with the Universe to create bigger and better idiot-proof programs, while the Universe is trying to create bigger and better idiots. So far the Universe is winning. -- Rich Cook
I think it is wise, and only honest, to warn you that my goal is immodest. It is not my purpose to "transfer knowledge" to you that, subsequently, you can forget again. My purpose is no less than to effectuate in each of you a noticeable, irreversable change. I want you to gain, for the rest of your lives, the insight that beautiful proofs are not "found" by trial anf error but are the result of a consciously applied design discipline. I want you to raise your quality standards. I mean, if 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself "Dijkstra would not have liked this", well, that would be enough immortality for me. -- E. W. Dijkstra
Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. -- Thomas Edison
A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure. -- Hugh Kingsmill
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
Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. -- Martin Golding
People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy. ~Tony Robbins
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. –Maya Angelou
I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. –Stephen Covey
Thinking should become your capital asset, no matter whatever ups and downs you come across in your life. ~Dr. APJ Kalam