Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter. -- Eric Raymond

The best people and organizations have the attitude of wisdom: The courage to act on what they know right now and the humility to change course when they find better evidence. The quest for management magic and breakthrough ideas is overrated; being a master of the obvious is underrated. Jim Maloney is right: Work is an overrated activity -- Bob Sutton

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

Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones. -- Alan J. Perlis (Epigrams in programming)

Hire people smarter than you. Work with people smarter than you. Listen to them. Let them lead you. Take the blame for all failures, give away the credit for all successes. -- How to fail: 25 secrets learned through failure

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. -- Benjamin Franklin

Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. ~Winston Churchill

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. ~Thomas A. Edison

Education costs money. But then so does ignorance. –Sir Claus Moser

If you want to achieve greatness stop asking for permission. ~Anonymous