And if you go too far up, abstraction-wise, you run out of oxygen. Sometimes smart thinkers just don't know when to stop, and they create these absurd, all-encompassing, high-level pictures of the universe that are all good and fine, but don't actually mean anything at all. -- Joel Spolsky

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

A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer. -- Bill Gates

There really is no learning without doing. -- Roger Schank, Engines for Education

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. -- Arthur C. Clarke

Processors don't get better so that they can have more free time. Processors get better so _you_ can have more free time. -- LeCamarade (freeshells.ch)

If you do what you always did, you will get what you always got. ~Anonymous

You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. –Wayne Gretzky

If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough. –Oprah Winfrey

If you’re going through hell keep going. ~Winston Churchill