The job of a leader today is not to create followers. It’s to create more leaders. -- Ralph Nader
Lisp has jokingly been called "the most intelligent way to misuse a computer". I think that description is a great compliment because it transmits the full flavor of liberation: it has assisted a number of our most gifted fellow humans in thinking previously impossible thoughts. -- Edsger Dijkstra, CACM, 15:10
Photography is painting with light. -- Eric Hamilton
An expert is, according to my working definition "someone who doesn't need to look up answers to easy questions". -- Eric Lippert.
The best is the enemy of the good. -- Voltaire
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
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. ~Eleanor Roosevelt
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time. ~George Bernard Shaw
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. –Babe Ruth
Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. –Eleanor Roosevelt