:nunmap can also be used outside of a monastery. -- Vim user manual
Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all sentences short or avoid all detail and treat subjects only in outline, but that every word tell. -- William Strunk, Jr. (The Elements of Style)
I think it is wise, and only honest, to warn you that my goal is immodest. It is not my purpose to "transfer knowledge" to you that, subsequently, you can forget again. My purpose is no less than to effectuate in each of you a noticeable, irreversable change. I want you to gain, for the rest of your lives, the insight that beautiful proofs are not "found" by trial anf error but are the result of a consciously applied design discipline. I want you to raise your quality standards. I mean, if 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself "Dijkstra would not have liked this", well, that would be enough immortality for me. -- E. W. Dijkstra
Courage is grace under pressure. -- Ernest Hemingway
You can recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity. When you get it right, it is obvious that it is right. -- Richard Feynman
Mistakes were made. -- Ronald Reagan
I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing. ~Martha Stewart
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. –Confucius
Fortune sides with him who dares. ~Virgil
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe