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

Some people suggest that machines would be friendlier if input could be in a natural language. But natural language is probably the worst kind of input because it can be quite ambiguous. The process of retrieving information from the computer would be so time-consuming that you would be better off spending that time getting the information directly from an expert. -- Gary Kildall (inventor of CP/M, one of the first OS for the micro).

Being a programmer is the same way. The only way to be a good programmer is to write code. When you realize you haven't been writing much code lately, and it seems like all you do is brag about code you wrote in the past, and people start looking at you funny while you're shooting your mouth off, realize it's because they know. They might not even know they know, but they know. So, yes, doing what you love brings success, and by all means, throw yourself a nice big party, buy yourself a nice car, soak up the adulation of an adoring crowd. Then shut the fuck up and get back to work. -- Sincerity Theory

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. -- Arthur C. Clarke

C++ is like teenage sex: Everybody is talking about it all the time, only few are really doing it. -- unknown

You can recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity. When you get it right, it is obvious that it is right. -- Richard Feynman

First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end. –Aristotle

Believe you can and you’re halfway there. –Theodore Roosevelt

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

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.~ Oscar Wilde