If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. -- Rush (Freewill)

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

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. -- Mark Twain

Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. -- Frederick P. Brooks, No Sliver Bullet.

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

Thus, programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute. -- Alan J. Perlis

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

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. –Latin Proverb

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. –Napoleon Hill

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. ~John D. Rockefeller