Its a shame that the students of our generation grew up with windows and mice because that tainted our mindset not to think in terms of powerful tools. Some of us are just so tainted that we will never recover. -- Jeffrey Mark Siskind in comp.lang.lisp
Mastering isn’t a survival instinct; it’s an urge to excel. Mastering is one of the experiences that delineates us from animals. It is striving to be more tomorrow than we are today; to perfectly pitch the ball over home plate; to craft the perfect sentence in an article; to open the oven and feel the warm, richly-scented cloud telling you dinner is going to be absolutely extraordinary. We humans crave perfection, to be masters of our domain, to distinguish ourselves by sheer skill and prowess. -- Joesgoals.com
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. -- LaoTzu
If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as lines produced but as lines spent. -- Edsger Dijkstra
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
Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well. -- Earl of Chesterfield
The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones that do. ~Anonymous
You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. –Christopher Columbus
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. –Maya Angelou
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. ~Jim Ryun