To do something well you have to love it. So to the extent you can preserve hacking as something you love, you're likely to do it well. Try to keep the sense of wonder you had about programming at age 14. If you're worried that your current job is rotting your brain, it probably is. -- Paul Graham.

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

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

If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution. -- Robert Sewell

Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration. -- Stan Kelly-Bootle

That is one of the most distinctive differences between school and the real world: there is no reward for putting in a good effort. In fact, the whole concept of a "good effort" is a fake idea adults invented to encourage kids. It is not found in nature. -- Paul Graham

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. –Plato

I would rather die of passion than of boredom. –Vincent van Gogh

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. –Les Brown

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. ~Anonymous