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
No art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to excel in it. -- Alberti
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. -- Elie Wiesel
Lisp has jokingly been called "the most intelligent way to misuse a computer". I think that description is a great compliment because it transmits the full flavor of liberation: it has assisted a number of our most gifted fellow humans in thinking previously impossible thoughts. -- Edsger Dijkstra, CACM, 15:10
The Work Begins Anew, The Hope Rises Again, And The Dream Lives On. -- Ted Kennedy
La connaissance d'un défaut ne l'enlève pas, elle nous torture jusqu'à sa correction. -- Daniel Lovewin (Guillaume Kpotufe)
Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. ~John R. Wooden
Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. –Albert Einstein
Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is. –Vince Lombardi
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. –Anne Frank