Programming is the art of figuring out what you want so precisely that even a machine can do it. -- Some guy who isn't famous

When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. -- unknown

Making All Software Into Tools Reduces Risk. -- smoothspan.com

No art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to excel in it. -- Alberti

It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC. As potential programmers, they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration. -- E. W. Dijkstra

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

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. –Albert Einstein

We become what we think about. –Earl Nightingale

I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong. –Benjamin Franklin

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. –Henry Ford