A little learning is a dangerous thing. -- Alexander Pope

Attitude is no substitute for competence. -- Eric S. Raymond, How to become a hacker

A non negative binary integer value x is a power of 2 iff (x & (x-1)) is 0 using 2's complement arithmetic. -- [fact]

Argue with idiots, and you become an idiot. If you compete with slaves you become a slave. -- Paul Graham and Norbert Weiner, respectively

I think that a lot of programmers are ignoring an important point when people talk about reducing code repetition on large projects. Part of the idea is that large projects are intrinsically *wrong*. That you should be looking at making a number of smaller projects that are composable, even if you never end up reusing one of those smaller projects elsewhere. -- Dan Nugent

Never do the impossible. People will expect you to do it forever after. -- pigsandfishes.com

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

All progress takes place outside the comfort zone. ~Michael John Bobak

It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. –Abraham Lincoln

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