Luck is where preparation meets opportunity. -- Randy Pausch
We will never become a truly paper-less society until the Palm Pilot folks come out with WipeMe 1.0. -- Andy Pierson
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. -- Donald Knuth
In God I trust; I will not be afraid. What can mortal man do to me? -- David (Psalm 56:4)
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
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)
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life — think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. ~Swami Vivekananda
Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. ~Lolly Daskal
Knowledge is being aware of what you can do. Wisdom is knowing when not to do it. ~Anonymous
I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. ~Diane Ackerman