Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. -- Thomas Edison

Do not accept anything because it comes from the mouth of a respected person. -- Buddha

C’s great for what it’s great for. -- Ben Hoyts (micropledge)

[How friendly will this machine be?] Well, I don’t think it’s a matter of friendliness, because ultimately if the program is going to accomplish anything of value, it will probably be relatively complex. -- Gary Kildall (inventor of CP/M, one of the first OS for the micro).

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight. -- Bill Gates

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)

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. –Benjamin Franklin

If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten. –Tony Robbins

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. –Beverly Sills

Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. ~John R. Wooden