If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. -- Mark Twain

Thus, programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute. -- Alan J. Perlis

Good programmers use their brains, but good guidelines save us having to think out every case. -- Francis Glassborow

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

Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones. -- Alan J. Perlis (Epigrams in programming)

It's like a condom; I'd rather have it and not need it than need it and not have it. -- some chick in Alien vs. Predator, when asked why she always carries a gun

Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. ~Winston Churchill

If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten. –Tony Robbins

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. –Albert Einstein

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. ~Margaret Thatcher