It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC. As potential programmers, they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration. -- E. W. Dijkstra

Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. -- Cited by Randy Pausch

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. -- Hans Hofmann

Simplicity and pragmatism beat complexity and theory any day. -- Dennis (blog comment)

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it's a duck. -- Official definition of "duck typing"

We are the sum of our behaviours; excellence therefore is not an act but a habit. -- Aristotle.

Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them. ~Vaibhav Shah

If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you! ~T. Harv Eker

All progress takes place outside the comfort zone. ~Michael John Bobak

If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money. –Abigail Van Buren