Well, if you talk about programming to a group of programmers who use the same language, they can become almost evangelistic about the language. They form a tight-knit community, hold to certain beliefs, and follow certain rules in their programming. It’s like a church with a programming language for a Bible. -- Gary Kildall (inventor of CP/M, one of the first OS for the micro).

You can have premature generalization as well as premature optimization. -- Bjarne Stroustrup

It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration. -- Edsger Dijkstra

It is better to be quiet and thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. -- WikiHow

Normality is the route to nowhere. -- Ridderstrale & Nordstorm, Funky Business

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

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself. ~Mark Caine

In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it. ~Jane Smiley

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. –Amelia Earhart

Fall seven times and stand up eight. –Japanese Proverb