Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter. -- Eric Raymond
Mistakes were made. -- Ronald Reagan
Any code of your own that you haven’t looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else. -- Eagleson’s Law
Hence my urgent advice to all of you to reject the morals of the bestseller society and to find, to start with, your reward in your own fun. This is quite feasible, for the challenge of simplification is so fascinating that, if we do our job properly, we shall have the greatest fun in the world. -- E. W. Dijkstra, On the nature of computing science.
Processors don't get better so that they can have more free time. Processors get better so _you_ can have more free time. -- LeCamarade (freeshells.ch)
Mastering isn’t a survival instinct; it’s an urge to excel. Mastering is one of the experiences that delineates us from animals. It is striving to be more tomorrow than we are today; to perfectly pitch the ball over home plate; to craft the perfect sentence in an article; to open the oven and feel the warm, richly-scented cloud telling you dinner is going to be absolutely extraordinary. We humans crave perfection, to be masters of our domain, to distinguish ourselves by sheer skill and prowess. -- Joesgoals.com
The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it. –Chinese Proverb
I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear. –Rosa Parks
You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction. ~George Lorimer
An unexamined life is not worth living. –Socrates