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

The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise. -- Edsger Dijkstra

Software is like sex: It’s better when it’s free. -- Linus Torvalds

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

In order to understand what another person is saying, you must assume that it is true and try to find out what it could be true of. -- George Miller

[How friendly will this machine be?] Well, I don’t think it’s a matter of friendliness, because ultimately if the program is going to accomplish anything of value, it will probably be relatively complex. -- Gary Kildall (inventor of CP/M, one of the first OS for the micro).

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. –Grandma Moses

If you want to achieve greatness stop asking for permission. ~Anonymous

You can’t fall if you don’t climb. But there’s no joy in living your whole life on the ground. –Unknown

It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings. –Ann Landers