Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones. Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS. -- Alan Kay

If something isn’t working, you need to look back and figure out what got you excited in the first place. -- David Gorman (ImThere.com)

I think that a lot of programmers are ignoring an important point when people talk about reducing code repetition on large projects. Part of the idea is that large projects are intrinsically *wrong*. That you should be looking at making a number of smaller projects that are composable, even if you never end up reusing one of those smaller projects elsewhere. -- Dan Nugent

The proof is by reductio ad absurdum, and reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician’s finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess gambit: a chess player may offer the sacrifice of a pawn or even a piece, but a mathematician offers the game. -- G. H. Hardy

Actually, the essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty. Satisfaction lies in mindful repetition, the discovery of endless richness in subtle variations on familiar themes. -- George Leonard, Mastery.

Programmers are in a race with the Universe to create bigger and better idiot-proof programs, while the Universe is trying to create bigger and better idiots. So far the Universe is winning. -- Rich Cook

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

To be successful you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can’t just accept the ones you like. ~Mike Gafka

The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones that do. ~Anonymous

Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. –Joshua J. Marine