When your enemy is making a very serious mistake, don't be impolite and disturb him. -- Napoleon Bonaparte (allegedly)

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent. -- Eleanor Roosevelt

Since programmers create programs out of nothing, imagination is our only limitation. Thus, in the world of programming, the hero is the one who has great vision. Paul Graham is one of our contemporary heroes. He has the ability to embrace the vision, and to express it plainly. His works are my favorites, especially the ones describing language design. He explains secrets of programming, languages, and human nature that can only be learned from the hacker experience. This book shows you his great vision, and tells you the truth about the nature of hacking. -- Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto, creator of Ruby

If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough. -- Mario Andretti

C++ is history repeated as tragedy. Java is history repeated as farce. -- Scott McKay

The lesson of the story might appear to be that self-interested and ambitious people in power are often the cause of wastefulness in developing countries. But self-interested and ambitious people are in positions of power, great and small, all over the world. In many places, they are restrained by the law, the press, and democratic opposition. Cameroon's tragedy is that there is nothing to hold self-interest in check. -- Tim Harford

Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to doDon’t wish it were easier, wish you were better. ~Jim Rohn

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself. ~Mark Caine

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough. ~Albert Einstein

Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly. ~Proverb