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

A tail call allows a function to return the result of another function without leaving an entry on the stack. Tail recursion is a specific case of tail calling. -- ASPN : Python Cookbook : Explicit Tail Call

New eyes have X-ray vision. [someone that hasn't written it is more likely to spot the bug. "someone" can be you after a break] -- William S. Annis

The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise. -- Edsger Dijkstra

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

Software is like sex: It’s better when it’s free. -- Linus Torvalds

What’s the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable. ~Anonymous

If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on. –Sheryl Sandberg

Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. –Joshua J. Marine

We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained. –Marie Curie