[How friendly will this machine be?] Well, I don’t think it’s a matter of friendliness, because ultimately if the program is going to accomplish anything of value, it will probably be relatively complex. -- Gary Kildall (inventor of CP/M, one of the first OS for the micro).

No problem should ever have to be solved twice. -- Eric S. Raymond, How to become a hacker

The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it [Leadership]. -- Dwight D. Enseinhover.

The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should therefore be regarded as a criminal offense. -- E.W. Dijkstra

The wonderful and frustrating thing about understanding yourself is that nobody can do it for you. -- BetterExplained.com

It is better to be quiet and thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. -- WikiHow

You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. –Maya Angelou

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me. –Erma Bombeck

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

You become what you believe. –Oprah Winfrey