This challenge, viz. the confrontation with the programming task, is so unique that this novel experience can teach us a lot about ourselves. It should deepen our understanding of the processes of design and creation, it should give us better control over the task of organizing our thoughts. If it did not do so, to my taste we should no deserve the computer at all! It has allready taught us a few lessons, and the one I have chosen to stress in this talk is the following. We shall do a much better programming job, provided that we approach the task with a full appreciation of its tremenduous difficulty, provided that we stick to modest and elegant programming languages, provided that we respect the intrinsec limitations of the human mind and approach the task as Very Humble Programmers. -- E. W. Dijkstra, The humble programmer

There are many ways to avoid success in life, but the most sure-fire just might be procrastination. -- Hara Estroff Marano.

Good coders code, great reuse. -- http://www.catonmat.net

Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. -- Cited by Randy Pausch

Remember that you are humans in the first place and only after that programmers. -- Alexandru Vancea

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

Do what you can, where you are, with what you have. –Teddy Roosevelt

You become what you believe. –Oprah Winfrey

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. –Alice Walker

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