A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer. -- Bill Gates
The only thing a man should ever be 100% convinced of is his own ignorance. -- DJ MacLean
If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough. -- Mario Andretti
C++ is like teenage sex: Everybody is talking about it all the time, only few are really doing it. -- unknown
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
The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it [Leadership]. -- Dwight D. Enseinhover.
Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. ~John D. Rockefeller
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all. ~Dale Carnegie
If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much. ~ Jim Rohn
The mind is everything. What you think you become. –Buddha