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

Code is poetry. -- wordpress.org

In God I trust; I will not be afraid. What can mortal man do to me? -- David (Psalm 56:4)

Any code of your own that you haven’t looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else. -- Eagleson’s Law

Sometimes a man with too broad a perspective reveals himself as having no real perspective at all. A man who tries too hard to see every side may be a man who is trying to avoid choosing any side. A man who tries too hard to seek a deeper truth may be trying to hide from the truth he already knows. That is not a sign of intellectual sophistication and "great thinking". It is a demonstration of moral degeneracy and cowardice. -- Steven Den Beste

I would rather be an optimist and be wrong than a pessimist who proves to be right. The former sometimes wins, but never the latter. -- "Hoots"

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others. ~Bill Gates

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it. ~Washington Irving

You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. –Maya Angelou

Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning. ~Robert Kiyosaki