A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing. -- Alan Perlis

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

We tend to seek easy, single-factor explanations of success. For most important things, though, success actually requires avoiding many separate causes of failure. -- Jared Diamond

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

1 - Creativity and innovation always build on the past. 2 - The past always tries to control the creativity that builds on it. 3 - Free societies enable the future by limiting the past. 4 - Ours is less and less a free society. -- Lawrence Lessig, Free Culture.

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. ~Vidal Sassoon

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. –Babe Ruth

Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. ~John R. Wooden

No masterpiece was ever created by a lazy artist.~ Anonymous