A little learning is a dangerous thing. -- Alexander Pope
It’s hard to grasp abstractions if you don’t understand what they’re abstracting away from. -- Nathan Weizenbaum
Argue with idiots, and you become an idiot. If you compete with slaves you become a slave. -- Paul Graham and Norbert Weiner, respectively
Within a computer natural language is unnatural. -- Alan J. Perlis (Epigrams in programming)
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
Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams. -- Mary Ellen Kelly
Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is. –Vince Lombardi
Life isn't about getting and having, it's about giving and being. –Kevin Kruse
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me. –Erma Bombeck
Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. –Albert Einstein