Programming is the art of figuring out what you want so precisely that even a machine can do it. -- Some guy who isn't famous

So the mere constraint of staying in regular contact with us will push you to make things happen, because otherwise you'll be embarrassed to tell us that you haven't done anything new since the last time we talked. -- Paul Graham (a talk at Y Combinator, for startup creators).

There are many ways to avoid success in life, but the most sure-fire just might be procrastination. -- Hara Estroff Marano.

A non negative binary integer value x is a power of 2 iff (x & (x-1)) is 0 using 2's complement arithmetic. -- [fact]

Are you willing to wear your white belt? -- George Leonard, Mastery.

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

Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right. –Henry Ford

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself. ~Mark Caine

People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy. ~Tony Robbins

If you’re going through hell keep going. ~Winston Churchill