The programmer must seek both perfection of part and adequacy of collection. -- Alan J. Perlis

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. -- Goethe

Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called an engineering discipline. -- Bill Clinton

An interpreter raises the machine to the level of the user program; a compiler lowers the user program to the level of the machine language. -- SICP

Its a shame that the students of our generation grew up with windows and mice because that tainted our mindset not to think in terms of powerful tools. Some of us are just so tainted that we will never recover. -- Jeffrey Mark Siskind in comp.lang.lisp

It is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead. -- Edsger Dijkstra

Eighty percent of success is showing up. –Woody Allen

There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. –Aristotle

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. –Albert Einstein

The best reason to start an organization is to make meaning; to create a product or service to make the world a better place. ~Guy Kawasaki