If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as lines produced but as lines spent. -- Edsger Dijkstra

Before software can be reusable it first has to be usable. -- Ralph Johnson

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

C’s great for what it’s great for. -- Ben Hoyts (micropledge)

Resume writing is just like dating, or applying for a bank loan, in that nobody wants you if you're desperate. -- Steve Yegge.

A person won't become proficient at something until he or she has done it many times. In other words., if you want someone to be really good at building a software system, he or she will have to have built 10 or more systems of that type. -- Philip Greenspun

Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. ~Anonymous

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. –Grandma Moses

You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them. ~Michael Jordan

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. –Les Brown