The proof is by reductio ad absurdum, and reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician’s finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess gambit: a chess player may offer the sacrifice of a pawn or even a piece, but a mathematician offers the game. -- G. H. Hardy

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

I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind. -- Alan Kay

Lisp is a programmable programming language. -- John Foderaro

Being a programmer is the same way. The only way to be a good programmer is to write code. When you realize you haven't been writing much code lately, and it seems like all you do is brag about code you wrote in the past, and people start looking at you funny while you're shooting your mouth off, realize it's because they know. They might not even know they know, but they know. So, yes, doing what you love brings success, and by all means, throw yourself a nice big party, buy yourself a nice car, soak up the adulation of an adoring crowd. Then shut the fuck up and get back to work. -- Sincerity Theory

Premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming. -- Donald Knuth

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. –Maya Angelou

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter. ~Francis Chan

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. –Mark Twain

Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. –Joshua J. Marine