Have you ever noticed that when you sit down to write something, half the ideas that end up in it are ones you thought of while writing it? The same thing happens with software. Working to implement one idea gives you more ideas. -- Paul Graham, The other road ahead.

Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. -- Donald Knuth

I think it is wise, and only honest, to warn you that my goal is immodest. It is not my purpose to "transfer knowledge" to you that, subsequently, you can forget again. My purpose is no less than to effectuate in each of you a noticeable, irreversable change. I want you to gain, for the rest of your lives, the insight that beautiful proofs are not "found" by trial anf error but are the result of a consciously applied design discipline. I want you to raise your quality standards. I mean, if 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself "Dijkstra would not have liked this", well, that would be enough immortality for me. -- E. W. Dijkstra

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

Attitude is no substitute for competence. -- Eric S. Raymond, How to become a hacker

We really have to get over the idea that some stuff is just worth knowing even if you never do anything with it. Human memories happily erase stuff that has no purpose, so why try to fill up children's heads with such stuff? -- Roger Schank, Engines for Education

When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid. ~Audre Lorde

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

When you stop chasing the wrong things you give the right things a chance to catch you. ~Lolly Daskal

You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. –Wayne Gretzky