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

Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them. -- Alan Perlis

If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in. -- Edsger W. Dijkstra

Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. -- Martin Golding

Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming. -- Brian Kernigan

A hacker on a roll may be able to produce–in a period of a few months–something that a small development group (say, 7-8 people) would have a hard time getting together over a year. IBM used to report that certain programmers might be as much as 100 times as productive as other workers, or more. -- Peter Seebach

The mind is everything. What you think you become. –Buddha

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all. ~Dale Carnegie

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

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. ~Swami Vivekananda