Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp. -- Philip Greenspun (Greenspun's Tenth Rule)

Act from reason, and failure makes you rethink and study harder. Act from faith, and failure makes you blame someone and push harder. -- Erik Naggum

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

There are many ways to avoid success in life, but the most sure-fire just might be procrastination. -- Hara Estroff Marano.

Training research shows that if you get speed now you can get quality later. But if you don't get speed you will never get quality in the long run. -- Philip Greenspun

Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well. -- Earl of Chesterfield

The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. –Ayn Rand

Knowledge is being aware of what you can do. Wisdom is knowing when not to do it. ~Anonymous

The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. –Ayn Rand

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough. ~Albert Einstein