C++ is like teenage sex: Everybody is talking about it all the time, only few are really doing it. -- unknown

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

You can have premature generalization as well as premature optimization. -- Bjarne Stroustrup

If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as lines produced but as lines spent. -- Edsger Dijkstra

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. -- Benjamin Franklin

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. -- Elie Wiesel

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. –Henry Ford

Life isn't about getting and having, it's about giving and being. –Kevin Kruse

People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy. ~Tony Robbins

We become what we think about. –Earl Nightingale