To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I had to learn how to teach less, so that more could be learned. -- Tim Gallwey, The inner game of work

Seize any opportunity, or anything that looks like opportunity. They are rare, much rarer than you think... -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb, "The Black Swan".

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.

It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration. -- Edsger Dijkstra

The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit. -- Anonymous

The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. –Ayn Rand

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. ~Vidal Sassoon

The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. –Ayn Rand

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.~ Oscar Wilde