No one is all evil. Everybody has a good side. If you keep waiting, it will comme up. -- Randy Pausch
Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams. -- Mary Ellen Kelly
If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in. -- Edsger W. Dijkstra
Any fool can make the simple complex, only a smart person can make the complex simple. -- unknown
Functional programming is to algorithms as the ubiquitous little black dress is to women's fashion. -- Mark Tarver (of "The bipolar Lisp programmer" fame)
The acts of the mind, wherein it exerts its power over simple ideas, are chiefly these three: 1. Combining several simple ideas into one compound one, and thus all complex ideas are made. 2. The second is bringing two ideas, whether simple or complex, together, and setting them by one another so as to take a view of them at once, without uniting them into one, by which it gets all its ideas of relations. 3. The third is separating them from all other ideas that accompany them in their real existence: this is called abstraction, and thus all its general ideas are made. -- John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690)
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. –Helen Keller
An unexamined life is not worth living. –Socrates
A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them. ~Henry Kravis
Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning. ~Robert Kiyosaki