The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris. -- Larry Wall (Programming Perl)

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler. -- Albert Einstein

A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing. -- Alan Perlis

Opportunities that present themselves to you are the consequence -- at least partially -- of being in the right place at the right time. They tend to present themselves when you're not expecting it -- and often when you are engaged in other activities that would seem to preclude you from pursuing them. And they come and go quickly -- if you don't jump all over an opportunity, someone else generally will and it will vanish. -- Marc Andreessen (http://blog.pmarca.com/)

Within a computer natural language is unnatural. -- Alan J. Perlis (Epigrams in programming)

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. -- Sherlock Holmes

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

Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. ~Lolly Daskal

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

You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. –Christopher Columbus