Remember that you are humans in the first place and only after that programmers. -- Alexandru Vancea

C++ is history repeated as tragedy. Java is history repeated as farce. -- Scott McKay

Linux is only free if your time has no value. -- Jamie Zawinski

An expert is, according to my working definition "someone who doesn't need to look up answers to easy questions". -- Eric Lippert.

Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all sentences short or avoid all detail and treat subjects only in outline, but that every word tell. -- William Strunk, Jr. (The Elements of Style)

Since programmers create programs out of nothing, imagination is our only limitation. Thus, in the world of programming, the hero is the one who has great vision. Paul Graham is one of our contemporary heroes. He has the ability to embrace the vision, and to express it plainly. His works are my favorites, especially the ones describing language design. He explains secrets of programming, languages, and human nature that can only be learned from the hacker experience. This book shows you his great vision, and tells you the truth about the nature of hacking. -- Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto, creator of Ruby

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it. ~Washington Irving

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul. ~Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. –Gloria Steinem

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. ~Margaret Thatcher