If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as lines produced but as lines spent. -- Edsger Dijkstra

A guideline in the process of stepwise refinement should be the principle to decompose decisions as much as possible, to untangle aspects which are only seemingly interdependent, and to defer those decisions which concern details of representation as long as possible. -- Niklaus Wirth

No problem should ever have to be solved twice. -- Eric S. Raymond, How to become a hacker

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

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. -- Lao­Tzu

Within a computer natural language is unnatural. -- Alan J. Perlis (Epigrams in programming)

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

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. –Martin Luther King Jr.

You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them. ~Michael Jordan

If you don’t value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents- start charging for it. ~Kim Garst