Seize any opportunity, or anything that looks like opportunity. They are rare, much rarer than you think... -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb, "The Black Swan".
We control complexity by building abstractions that hide details when appropriate. We control complexity by establishing conventional interfaces that enable us to construct systems by combining standard, well-understood pieces in a ``mix and match'' way. We control complexity by establishing new languages for describing a design, each of which emphasizes particular aspects of the design and deemphasizes others. -- Alan J. Perlis
Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them. -- Alan Perlis
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
This challenge, viz. the confrontation with the programming task, is so unique that this novel experience can teach us a lot about ourselves. It should deepen our understanding of the processes of design and creation, it should give us better control over the task of organizing our thoughts. If it did not do so, to my taste we should no deserve the computer at all! It has allready taught us a few lessons, and the one I have chosen to stress in this talk is the following. We shall do a much better programming job, provided that we approach the task with a full appreciation of its tremenduous difficulty, provided that we stick to modest and elegant programming languages, provided that we respect the intrinsec limitations of the human mind and approach the task as Very Humble Programmers. -- E. W. Dijkstra, The humble programmer
You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. -- Dr. Seuss
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. ~David Brinkley
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing. ~Dale Carnegie
If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough. ~Albert Einstein
Knowledge is being aware of what you can do. Wisdom is knowing when not to do it. ~Anonymous