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

All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection. -- Butler Lampson

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

I'm always happy to trade performance for readability as long as the former isn't already scarce. -- Crayz (Commentor on blog.raganwald.com)

Within a computer natural language is unnatural. -- Alan J. Perlis (Epigrams in programming)

Workers of the world, the chains that bind you are not held in place by a ruling class, a "superior" race, by society, the state, or a leader. They are held in place by none other than yourself. Those who seek to exploit are not themselves free, for they place no value in freedom. Who is it that really employs you and commands you to pick up your daily load? And who is it that you allow to pass judgment on the adequacy of your toil? Who have you empowered to dangle the carrot before you and threaten with disapproval? Who, when you wake each morning, sends you off to what you call your work? Is there an "I want to" behind all your "I have to," or have you been so long forgotten to yourself that "I want" exists only as an idea in your head? If you have disconnected from your soul's desire and are drowning in an ocean of "have to," then rise up and overthrow your master. Begin the journey toward emancipation. Work only in such a way that you are truly self-employed. -- Tim Gallwey, The inner game of work

The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones that do. ~Anonymous

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. –Henry Ford

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. –Benjamin Franklin

You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. –Christopher Columbus