Understanding why C++ is the way it is helps a programmer use it well. A deep understanding of a tool is essential for an expert craftsman. -- Bjarne Stroustrap

1 - Creativity and innovation always build on the past. 2 - The past always tries to control the creativity that builds on it. 3 - Free societies enable the future by limiting the past. 4 - Ours is less and less a free society. -- Lawrence Lessig, Free Culture.

Revolutions come from standing on the shoulders of giants and facing in a better direction. -- Alan Kay

To iterate is human, to recurse divine. -- L. Peter Deutsch

To do something well you have to love it. So to the extent you can preserve hacking as something you love, you're likely to do it well. Try to keep the sense of wonder you had about programming at age 14. If you're worried that your current job is rotting your brain, it probably is. -- Paul Graham.

A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure. -- Hugh Kingsmill

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. ~Eleanor Roosevelt

You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. –Christopher Columbus

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it. ~Washington Irving

All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. ~Walt Disney