Thus, programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute. -- Alan J. Perlis

For complex systems, the compiler and development environment need to be in the same language that its supporting. It's the only way to grow code. -- Alan Kay

Why teach drawing to accountants? Because drawing class doesn't just teach people to draw. It teaches them to be more observant. There's no company on earth that wouldn't benefit from having people become more observant. -- Randy S. Nelson (dean of Pixar University)

The opposite of love is not hate, it is indifference. -- Elie Wiesel

All great things require great dedication. -- Chuck Norris(?)

Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp. -- Philip Greenspun (Greenspun's Tenth Rule)

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it. ~Henry Ford

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

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. –Pablo Picasso

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. –Alice Walker