Courage is grace under pressure. -- Ernest Hemingway

This challenge, viz. the confrontation with the programming task, is so unique that this novel experience can teach us a lot about ourselves. It should deepen our understanding of the processes of design and creation, it should give us better control over the task of organizing our thoughts. If it did not do so, to my taste we should no deserve the computer at all! It has allready taught us a few lessons, and the one I have chosen to stress in this talk is the following. We shall do a much better programming job, provided that we approach the task with a full appreciation of its tremenduous difficulty, provided that we stick to modest and elegant programming languages, provided that we respect the intrinsec limitations of the human mind and approach the task as Very Humble Programmers. -- E. W. Dijkstra, The humble programmer

C’s great for what it’s great for. -- Ben Hoyts (micropledge)

I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind. -- Alan Kay

What is truth? -- Pontius Pilate

Its a shame that the students of our generation grew up with windows and mice because that tainted our mindset not to think in terms of powerful tools. Some of us are just so tainted that we will never recover. -- Jeffrey Mark Siskind in comp.lang.lisp

Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them. ~Vaibhav Shah

The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. –Ayn Rand

Either you run the day, or the day runs you. –Jim Rohn

It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. –Abraham Lincoln