Well, if you talk about programming to a group of programmers who use the same language, they can become almost evangelistic about the language. They form a tight-knit community, hold to certain beliefs, and follow certain rules in their programming. It’s like a church with a programming language for a Bible. -- Gary Kildall (inventor of CP/M, one of the first OS for the micro).

If there is a will, there is a way. -- unknown

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

The job of a leader today is not to create followers. It’s to create more leaders. -- Ralph Nader

Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called an engineering discipline. -- Bill Clinton

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

You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame. –Erica Jong

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see. ~Anonymous

It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live. –Mae Jemison

I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong. –Benjamin Franklin