It is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead. -- Edsger Dijkstra

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil. -- Cicero

In order to understand what another person is saying, you must assume that it is true and try to find out what it could be true of. -- George Miller

A tail call allows a function to return the result of another function without leaving an entry on the stack. Tail recursion is a specific case of tail calling. -- ASPN : Python Cookbook : Explicit Tail Call

Fools! Don't they know that tears are a woman's most effective weapon? -- Catwoman (The Batman TV Series, episode 83)

All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection. -- Butler Lampson

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. ~Truman Capote

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

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life. –John Lennon

All progress takes place outside the comfort zone. ~Michael John Bobak