Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones. Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS. -- Alan Kay

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

A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer. -- Bill Gates

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. -- Mark Twain

He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. -- Matthew 5:45

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.

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough. ~Albert Einstein

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. –Les Brown

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. ~Jim Ryun

Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see. –Confucius