We really have to get over the idea that some stuff is just worth knowing even if you never do anything with it. Human memories happily erase stuff that has no purpose, so why try to fill up children's heads with such stuff? -- Roger Schank, Engines for Education
More computing sins are committed in the name of efficiency (without necessarily achieving it) than for any other single reason - including blind stupidity. -- W.A. Wulf
However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results. -- Winston Churchill
Being a programmer is the same way. The only way to be a good programmer is to write code. When you realize you haven't been writing much code lately, and it seems like all you do is brag about code you wrote in the past, and people start looking at you funny while you're shooting your mouth off, realize it's because they know. They might not even know they know, but they know. So, yes, doing what you love brings success, and by all means, throw yourself a nice big party, buy yourself a nice car, soak up the adulation of an adoring crowd. Then shut the fuck up and get back to work. -- Sincerity Theory
C++ is like teenage sex: Everybody is talking about it all the time, only few are really doing it. -- unknown
Act from reason, and failure makes you rethink and study harder. Act from faith, and failure makes you blame someone and push harder. -- Erik Naggum
The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. –Ayn Rand
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. ~Dale Carnegie
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. ~Jim Ryun
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. –Plato