Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp. -- Philip Greenspun (Greenspun's Tenth Rule)

There are many ways to avoid success in life, but the most sure-fire just might be procrastination. -- Hara Estroff Marano.

It’s hard to grasp abstractions if you don’t understand what they’re abstracting away from. -- Nathan Weizenbaum

A hacker on a roll may be able to produce–in a period of a few months–something that a small development group (say, 7-8 people) would have a hard time getting together over a year. IBM used to report that certain programmers might be as much as 100 times as productive as other workers, or more. -- Peter Seebach

Premature abstraction is an equally grevious sin as premature optimization. -- Keith Devens

I had to learn how to teach less, so that more could be learned. -- Tim Gallwey, The inner game of work

You can do anything, but not everything. ~Anonymous

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. ~Swami Vivekananda

You may only succeed if you desire succeeding; you may only fail if you do not mind failing. ~Philippos

Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them. ~Vaibhav Shah