A CS professor once explained recursion as follows: A child couldn't sleep, so her mother told her a story about a little frog, who couldn't sleep, so the frog's mother told her a story about a little bear, who couldn't sleep, so the bear's mother told her a story about a little weasel... who fell asleep. ...and the little bear fell asleep; ...and the little frog fell asleep; ...and the child fell asleep. -- everything2.com

Are you willing to wear your white belt? -- George Leonard, Mastery.

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. -- Frank Lloyd Wright

Any sufficiently advanced technology is undistinguishable from magic. -- Arthur C. Clarke

Mastering isn’t a survival instinct; it’s an urge to excel. Mastering is one of the experiences that delineates us from animals. It is striving to be more tomorrow than we are today; to perfectly pitch the ball over home plate; to craft the perfect sentence in an article; to open the oven and feel the warm, richly-scented cloud telling you dinner is going to be absolutely extraordinary. We humans crave perfection, to be masters of our domain, to distinguish ourselves by sheer skill and prowess. -- Joesgoals.com

Code is poetry. -- wordpress.org

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice. ~Wayne Dyer

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. –Maya Angelou

Knowledge is being aware of what you can do. Wisdom is knowing when not to do it. ~Anonymous

If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced. –Vincent Van Gogh