There is one meaning [for static in C]: a global variable that is invisible outside the current scope, be it a function or a file. -- Paolo Bonzini

Premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming. -- Donald Knuth

I think it is wise, and only honest, to warn you that my goal is immodest. It is not my purpose to "transfer knowledge" to you that, subsequently, you can forget again. My purpose is no less than to effectuate in each of you a noticeable, irreversable change. I want you to gain, for the rest of your lives, the insight that beautiful proofs are not "found" by trial anf error but are the result of a consciously applied design discipline. I want you to raise your quality standards. I mean, if 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself "Dijkstra would not have liked this", well, that would be enough immortality for me. -- E. W. Dijkstra

Do not accept anything because it comes from the mouth of a respected person. -- Buddha

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. -- Frank Lloyd Wright

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

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

Fall seven times and stand up eight. –Japanese Proverb

You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals. ~Booker T. Washington

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. –Bill Cosby