Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. -- Martin Golding

I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind. -- Alan Kay

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies, The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. -- C.S. Lewis

I was talking recently to a friend who teaches at MIT. His field is hot now and every year he is inundated by applications from would-be graduate students. "A lot of them seem smart," he said. "What I can't tell is whether they have any kind of taste." -- Paul Graham

Never do the impossible. People will expect you to do it forever after. -- pigsandfishes.com

Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter. -- Eric Raymond

If you don’t value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents- start charging for it. ~Kim Garst

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. –Latin Proverb

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. –Plato

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. –Maya Angelou