Students should be evaluated on how well they can achieve the goals they strived to achieve within a realistic context. Students need to learn to do things, not know things. -- Roger Schank, Engines for Education

State is the root of all evil. In particular functions with side effects should be avoided. -- OO Sucks (bluetail.com)

The wonderful and frustrating thing about understanding yourself is that nobody can do it for you. -- BetterExplained.com

I guess, when you're drunk, every woman looks beautiful and every language looks (like) a Lisp :) -- Lament, #[email protected]

Sometimes a man with too broad a perspective reveals himself as having no real perspective at all. A man who tries too hard to see every side may be a man who is trying to avoid choosing any side. A man who tries too hard to seek a deeper truth may be trying to hide from the truth he already knows. That is not a sign of intellectual sophistication and "great thinking". It is a demonstration of moral degeneracy and cowardice. -- Steven Den Beste

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

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. –Amelia Earhart

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. ~Jim Ryun

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. –Bob Dylan

Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. ~Lolly Daskal