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
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. -- LaoTzu
C++ is history repeated as tragedy. Java is history repeated as farce. -- Scott McKay
Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex, intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple, stupid behavior. -- Dee Hock, Birth of the Chaordic Age
C++ is history repeated as tragedy. Java is history repeated as farce. -- Scott McKay
Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. -- Frederick P. Brooks, No Sliver Bullet.
I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. ~Thomas A. Edison
Thinking should become your capital asset, no matter whatever ups and downs you come across in your life. ~Dr. APJ Kalam
Believe you can and you’re halfway there. –Theodore Roosevelt
Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. ~John D. Rockefeller