It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC. As potential programmers, they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration. -- E. W. Dijkstra

When your enemy is making a very serious mistake, don't be impolite and disturb him. -- Napoleon Bonaparte (allegedly)

A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing. -- Alan Perlis

To follow the path: look to the master, follow the master, walk with the master, see through the master, become the master. -- Modern zen Poem

Simplicity takes effort-- genius, even. -- Paul Graham

There are two ways of constructing a software design; one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult. -- C. A. R. Hoare

You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. –Wayne Gretzky

We become what we think about most of the time, and that’s the strangest secret. ~Earl Nightingale

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. –Latin Proverb

When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. –Helen Keller