The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should therefore be regarded as a criminal offense. -- E.W. Dijkstra
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. -- Benjamin Franklin
To follow the path: look to the master, follow the master, walk with the master, see through the master, become the master. -- Modern zen Poem
I think it is wise, and only honest, to warn you that my goal is immodest. It is not my purpose to "transfer knowledge" to you that, subsequently, you can forget again. My purpose is no less than to effectuate in each of you a noticeable, irreversable change. I want you to gain, for the rest of your lives, the insight that beautiful proofs are not "found" by trial anf error but are the result of a consciously applied design discipline. I want you to raise your quality standards. I mean, if 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself "Dijkstra would not have liked this", well, that would be enough immortality for me. -- E. W. Dijkstra
It was Edison who said ‘1% inspiration, 99% perspiration’. That may have been true a hundred years ago. These days it's ‘0.01% inspiration, 99.99% perspiration’, and the inspiration is the easy part. -- Linux Torvalds
Be the change you want to see in the world. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. ~Eleanor Roosevelt
Either you run the day, or the day runs you. –Jim Rohn
Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him. –Booker T. Washington
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement. –W. Clement Stone