I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind. -- Alan Kay

Mastering isn’t a survival instinct; it’s an urge to excel. Mastering is one of the experiences that delineates us from animals. It is striving to be more tomorrow than we are today; to perfectly pitch the ball over home plate; to craft the perfect sentence in an article; to open the oven and feel the warm, richly-scented cloud telling you dinner is going to be absolutely extraordinary. We humans crave perfection, to be masters of our domain, to distinguish ourselves by sheer skill and prowess. -- Joesgoals.com

An expert is, according to my working definition "someone who doesn't need to look up answers to easy questions". -- Eric Lippert.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. -- Colin Powell

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

The choice of the university is mostly important for the piece of paper you get at the end. The education you get depends on you. -- Andreas Zwinkau

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

A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them. ~Henry Kravis

15.Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. –Charles Swindoll

The starting point of all achievement is desire. ~Napolean Hill