Always dive down into a problem and get your hands on the deepest issue behind the problem. All other considerations are to dismissed as "engineering details"; they can be sorted out after the basic problem has been solved. -- Chris Crawford

In general, we can think of data as defined by some collection of selectors and constructors, together with specified conditions that these procedures must fulfill in order to be a valid representation. -- SICP, What is meant by data?

Software is like sex: It’s better when it’s free. -- Linus Torvalds

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

Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. -- Ferris Bueller

We really have to get over the idea that some stuff is just worth knowing even if you never do anything with it. Human memories happily erase stuff that has no purpose, so why try to fill up children's heads with such stuff? -- Roger Schank, Engines for Education

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. –Henry David Thoreau

Eighty percent of success is showing up. –Woody Allen

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear. –Rosa Parks

Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting. ~Anonymous