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

A person won't become proficient at something until he or she has done it many times. In other words., if you want someone to be really good at building a software system, he or she will have to have built 10 or more systems of that type. -- Philip Greenspun

The opposite of love is not hate, it is indifference. -- Elie Wiesel

If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough. -- Mario Andretti

A guideline in the process of stepwise refinement should be the principle to decompose decisions as much as possible, to untangle aspects which are only seemingly interdependent, and to defer those decisions which concern details of representation as long as possible. -- Niklaus Wirth

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832)

Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. –John Lennon

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

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. –Martin Luther King Jr.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see. –Confucius