The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris. -- Larry Wall (Programming Perl)

Within a computer natural language is unnatural. -- Alan J. Perlis (Epigrams in programming)

The direct pursuit of happiness is a recipe for an unhappy life. -- Donald Campbell

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

There really is no learning without doing. -- Roger Schank, Engines for Education

In God I trust; I will not be afraid. What can mortal man do to me? -- David (Psalm 56:4)

You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them. ~Michael Jordan

Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value. ~Albert Einstein

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. ~Thomas Jefferson

People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing - that’s why we recommend it daily. ~Zig Ziglar