Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. -- Blaise Pascal (attributed)

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

Simplicity means the achievement of maximum effect with minimum means. -- Dr. Koichi Kawana

It(mastering)’s knowing what you are doing. -- Joesgoals.com

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight. -- Bill Gates

Another feature about this guy is his low threshold of boredom. He'll pick up on a task and work frantically at it, accomplishing wonders in a short time and then get bored and drop it before its properly finished. He'll do nothing but strum his guitar and lie around in bed for several days after. Thats also part of the pattern too; periods of frenetic activity followed by periods of melancholia, withdrawal and inactivity. This is a bipolar personality. -- The bipolar lisp programmer

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Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter. ~Francis Chan

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Believe you can and you’re halfway there. –Theodore Roosevelt