Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. -- Donald Knuth

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

First learn computer science and all the theory. Next develop a programming style. Then forget all that and just hack. -- George Carrette

A CS professor once explained recursion as follows: A child couldn't sleep, so her mother told her a story about a little frog, who couldn't sleep, so the frog's mother told her a story about a little bear, who couldn't sleep, so the bear's mother told her a story about a little weasel... who fell asleep. ...and the little bear fell asleep; ...and the little frog fell asleep; ...and the child fell asleep. -- everything2.com

Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all sentences short or avoid all detail and treat subjects only in outline, but that every word tell. -- William Strunk, Jr. (The Elements of Style)

Windows NT addresses 2 Gigabytes of RAM, which is more than any application will ever need. -- Microsoft, on the development of Windows NT, 1992

I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing. ~Martha Stewart

The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus. ~Bruce Lee

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. ~Eleanor Roosevelt

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. –Amelia Earhart