Any code of your own that you haven’t looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else. -- Eagleson’s Law

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

Its a shame that the students of our generation grew up with windows and mice because that tainted our mindset not to think in terms of powerful tools. Some of us are just so tainted that we will never recover. -- Jeffrey Mark Siskind in comp.lang.lisp

The president was visiting NASA headquarters and stopped to talk to a man who was holding a mop. “And what do you do?” he asked. The man, a janitor, replied, “I’m helping to put a man on the moon, sir.” -- The little book of leadership

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

The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein

The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it. –Chinese Proverb

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. –Martin Luther King Jr.

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. ~Maya Angelou

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