The choice of the university is mostly important for the piece of paper you get at the end. The education you get depends on you. -- Andreas Zwinkau

Students should be evaluated on how well they can achieve the goals they strived to achieve within a realistic context. Students need to learn to do things, not know things. -- Roger Schank, Engines for Education

The lesson of the story might appear to be that self-interested and ambitious people in power are often the cause of wastefulness in developing countries. But self-interested and ambitious people are in positions of power, great and small, all over the world. In many places, they are restrained by the law, the press, and democratic opposition. Cameroon's tragedy is that there is nothing to hold self-interest in check. -- Tim Harford

State is the root of all evil. In particular functions with side effects should be avoided. -- OO Sucks (bluetail.com)

I think there’s a world market for about 5 computers. -- Thomas J. Watson, Chairman of the Board, IBM, circa 1948

First learn computer science and all the theory. Next develop a programming style. Then forget all that and just hack. -- George Carrette

Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly. ~Proverb

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

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. ~Swami Vivekananda

Dream big and dare to fail. –Norman Vaughan