An expert is, according to my working definition "someone who doesn't need to look up answers to easy questions". -- Eric Lippert.

You must always work not just within but below your means. If you can handle three elements, handle only two. If you can handle ten, then handle five. In that way the ones you do handle, you handle with more ease, more mastery and you create a feeling of strength in reserve. -- Pablo Picasso

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. -- Benjamin Franklin

C and Lisp stand at opposite ends of the spectrum; they're each great at what the other one sucks at. -- Steve Yegge, Tour de Babel.

The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should therefore be regarded as a criminal offense. -- E.W. Dijkstra

Always dive down into a problem and get your hands on the deepest issue behind the problem. All other considerations are to dismissed as "engineering details"; they can be sorted out after the basic problem has been solved. -- Chris Crawford

A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty. –Unknown

Life is about making an impact, not making an income. --Kevin Kruse

Fall seven times and stand up eight. –Japanese Proverb

Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right. –Henry Ford