I guess, when you're drunk, every woman looks beautiful and every language looks (like) a Lisp :) -- Lament, #[email protected]

You must always work not just within but below your means. If you can handle three elements, handle only two. If you can handle ten, then handle five. In that way the ones you do handle, you handle with more ease, more mastery and you create a feeling of strength in reserve. -- Pablo Picasso

The best programmers are not marginally better than merely good ones. They are an order-of-magnitude better, measured by whatever standard: conceptual creativity, speed, ingenuity of design, or problem-solving ability. -- Randall E. Stross

The direct pursuit of happiness is a recipe for an unhappy life. -- Donald Campbell

It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC. As potential programmers, they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration. -- E. W. Dijkstra

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. -- Benjamin Franklin

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. –Dalai Lama

I would rather die of passion than of boredom. –Vincent van Gogh

Eighty percent of success is showing up. –Woody Allen

Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. ~Lolly Daskal