Saying that Java is nice because it works on all OSes is like saying that anal sex is nice because it works on all genders. -- Alanna

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

You think you know when you learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program. -- Alan J. Perlis (Epigrams in programming)

This challenge, viz. the confrontation with the programming task, is so unique that this novel experience can teach us a lot about ourselves. It should deepen our understanding of the processes of design and creation, it should give us better control over the task of organizing our thoughts. If it did not do so, to my taste we should no deserve the computer at all! It has allready taught us a few lessons, and the one I have chosen to stress in this talk is the following. We shall do a much better programming job, provided that we approach the task with a full appreciation of its tremenduous difficulty, provided that we stick to modest and elegant programming languages, provided that we respect the intrinsec limitations of the human mind and approach the task as Very Humble Programmers. -- E. W. Dijkstra, The humble programmer

What we choose to fight is so tiny! What fights us is so great! ... When we win it's with small things, and the triumph itself makes us small. ... Winning does not tempt that man. This is how he grows: by being defeated, decisively, by constantly greater beings. -- Rainer Maria Rilke, The Man Watching.

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. -- Sherlock Holmes

Knowledge is being aware of what you can do. Wisdom is knowing when not to do it. ~Anonymous

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

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. ~Herman Melville

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. –Anais Nin