If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as lines produced but as lines spent. -- Edsger Dijkstra

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

Always dive down into a problem and get your hands on the deepest issue behind the problem. All other considerations are to dismissed as "engineering details"; they can be sorted out after the basic problem has been solved. -- Chris Crawford

Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp. -- Philip Greenspun (Greenspun's Tenth Rule)

I think there’s a world market for about 5 computers. -- Thomas J. Watson, Chairman of the Board, IBM, circa 1948

Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them. -- Alan Perlis

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. ~Maya Angelou

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. ~David Brinkley

When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. –Helen Keller

The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones that do. ~Anonymous