There really is no learning without doing. -- Roger Schank, Engines for Education

The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public. -- Anonymous

A CS professor once explained recursion as follows: A child couldn't sleep, so her mother told her a story about a little frog, who couldn't sleep, so the frog's mother told her a story about a little bear, who couldn't sleep, so the bear's mother told her a story about a little weasel... who fell asleep. ...and the little bear fell asleep; ...and the little frog fell asleep; ...and the child fell asleep. -- everything2.com

Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter. -- Eric Raymond

Good artists copy. Great artists steal. -- Pablo Picasso

It is said that the real winner is the one who lives in today but able to see tomorrow. -- Juan Meng, Reviewing "The future of ideas" by Lawrence Lessig

Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them. ~Vaibhav Shah

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. ~David Brinkley

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. ~Pablo Picasso

Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock and the door will be opened for you. –Jesus