Are you willing to wear your white belt? -- George Leonard, Mastery.
Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp. -- Philip Greenspun (Greenspun's Tenth Rule)
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
The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public. -- Anonymous
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I think there’s a world market for about 5 computers. -- Thomas J. Watson, Chairman of the Board, IBM, circa 1948
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing. ~Dale Carnegie
Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly. ~Proverb
Good things come to people who wait, but better things come to those who go out and get them. ~Anonymous
Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. –John Lennon