No one is all evil. Everybody has a good side. If you keep waiting, it will comme up. -- Randy Pausch

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

This challenge, viz. the confrontation with the programming task, is so unique that this novel experience can teach us a lot about ourselves. It should deepen our understanding of the processes of design and creation, it should give us better control over the task of organizing our thoughts. If it did not do so, to my taste we should no deserve the computer at all! It has allready taught us a few lessons, and the one I have chosen to stress in this talk is the following. We shall do a much better programming job, provided that we approach the task with a full appreciation of its tremenduous difficulty, provided that we stick to modest and elegant programming languages, provided that we respect the intrinsec limitations of the human mind and approach the task as Very Humble Programmers. -- E. W. Dijkstra, The humble programmer

State is the root of all evil. In particular functions with side effects should be avoided. -- OO Sucks (bluetail.com)

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity. And I'm not so sure about the former. -- Albert Einstein

Simplicity and pragmatism beat complexity and theory any day. -- Dennis (blog comment)

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.~ Oscar Wilde

The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones that do. ~Anonymous

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement. –W. Clement Stone

Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them. ~Vaibhav Shah