Since programmers create programs out of nothing, imagination is our only limitation. Thus, in the world of programming, the hero is the one who has great vision. Paul Graham is one of our contemporary heroes. He has the ability to embrace the vision, and to express it plainly. His works are my favorites, especially the ones describing language design. He explains secrets of programming, languages, and human nature that can only be learned from the hacker experience. This book shows you his great vision, and tells you the truth about the nature of hacking. -- Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto, creator of Ruby

Be the change you want to see in the world. -- Mahatma Gandhi

C++ is like teenage sex: Everybody is talking about it all the time, only few are really doing it. -- unknown

What is truth? -- Pontius Pilate

The lesson of the story might appear to be that self-interested and ambitious people in power are often the cause of wastefulness in developing countries. But self-interested and ambitious people are in positions of power, great and small, all over the world. In many places, they are restrained by the law, the press, and democratic opposition. Cameroon's tragedy is that there is nothing to hold self-interest in check. -- Tim Harford

If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in. -- Edsger W. Dijkstra

All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. ~Walt Disney

If you can dream it, you can achieve it. –Zig Ziglar

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. ~Maya Angelou

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. ~Margaret Thatcher