An expert is, according to my working definition "someone who doesn't need to look up answers to easy questions". -- Eric Lippert.

If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution. -- Robert Sewell

Simplicity takes effort-- genius, even. -- Paul Graham

I think it is wise, and only honest, to warn you that my goal is immodest. It is not my purpose to "transfer knowledge" to you that, subsequently, you can forget again. My purpose is no less than to effectuate in each of you a noticeable, irreversable change. I want you to gain, for the rest of your lives, the insight that beautiful proofs are not "found" by trial anf error but are the result of a consciously applied design discipline. I want you to raise your quality standards. I mean, if 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself "Dijkstra would not have liked this", well, that would be enough immortality for me. -- E. W. Dijkstra

Good work is no done by ‘humble’ men. -- H. Hardy, A mathematician's apology.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. -- Galileo Galilei

It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings. –Ann Landers

Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see. –Confucius

Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning. ~Robert Kiyosaki

Fall seven times and stand up eight. –Japanese Proverb