When you’ve got the code all ripped apart, it’s like a car that’s all disassembled. You’ve got all the parts tying all over your garage and you have to replace the broken part or the car will never run. It’s not fun until the code gets back to the baseline again. -- Gary Kildall (inventor of CP/M, one of the first OS for the micro).

Premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming. -- Donald Knuth

It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC. As potential programmers, they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration. -- E. W. Dijkstra

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. -- Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

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

Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value. ~Albert Einstein

If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten. –Tony Robbins

Do one thing every day that scares you. ~Anonymous