Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed. -- George Burns
No art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to excel in it. -- Alberti
Any code of your own that you haven’t looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else. -- Eagleson’s Law
This challenge, viz. the confrontation with the programming task, is so unique that this novel experience can teach us a lot about ourselves. It should deepen our understanding of the processes of design and creation, it should give us better control over the task of organizing our thoughts. If it did not do so, to my taste we should no deserve the computer at all! It has allready taught us a few lessons, and the one I have chosen to stress in this talk is the following. We shall do a much better programming job, provided that we approach the task with a full appreciation of its tremenduous difficulty, provided that we stick to modest and elegant programming languages, provided that we respect the intrinsec limitations of the human mind and approach the task as Very Humble Programmers. -- E. W. Dijkstra, The humble programmer
I guess, when you're drunk, every woman looks beautiful and every language looks (like) a Lisp :) -- Lament, #[email protected]
The hardest part of design ... is keeping features out. -- Donald Norman
There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul. ~Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. ~Steve Jobs
Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. –Napoleon Hill
Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. ~Lolly Daskal