The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. -- Hans Hofmann
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. -- Donald Knuth
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. -- Hans Hofmann
I think it is wise, and only honest, to warn you that my goal is immodest. It is not my purpose to "transfer knowledge" to you that, subsequently, you can forget again. My purpose is no less than to effectuate in each of you a noticeable, irreversable change. I want you to gain, for the rest of your lives, the insight that beautiful proofs are not "found" by trial anf error but are the result of a consciously applied design discipline. I want you to raise your quality standards. I mean, if 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself "Dijkstra would not have liked this", well, that would be enough immortality for me. -- E. W. Dijkstra
A person won't become proficient at something until he or she has done it many times. In other words., if you want someone to be really good at building a software system, he or she will have to have built 10 or more systems of that type. -- Philip Greenspun
The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: "I did not have time." -- WestHost weekly newsletter 14 Feb 2003
There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. –Aristotle
Teach thy tongue to say, I do not know, and thous shalt progress. –Maimonides
Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. ~Lolly Daskal
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. –Alice Walker