It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration. -- Edsger Dijkstra

Good work is no done by ‘humble’ men. -- H. Hardy, A mathematician's apology.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. -- Blaise Pascal (attributed)

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

That is the inevitable human response. We’re reluctant to believe that great discoveries are in the air. We want to believe that great discoveries are in our heads—and to each party in the multiple the presence of the other party is invariably cause for suspicion. -- Malcolm Gladwell, Who says big ideas are rare?

The acts of the mind, wherein it exerts its power over simple ideas, are chiefly these three: 1. Combining several simple ideas into one compound one, and thus all complex ideas are made. 2. The second is bringing two ideas, whether simple or complex, together, and setting them by one another so as to take a view of them at once, without uniting them into one, by which it gets all its ideas of relations. 3. The third is separating them from all other ideas that accompany them in their real existence: this is called abstraction, and thus all its general ideas are made. -- John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690)

Dream big and dare to fail. –Norman Vaughan

Thinking should become your capital asset, no matter whatever ups and downs you come across in your life. ~Dr. APJ Kalam

The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors. ~Napoleon Hill

Education costs money. But then so does ignorance. –Sir Claus Moser