Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well. -- Earl of Chesterfield

For complex systems, the compiler and development environment need to be in the same language that its supporting. It's the only way to grow code. -- Alan Kay

I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind. -- Alan Kay

The acts of the mind, wherein it exerts its power over simple ideas, are chiefly these three: 1. Combining several simple ideas into one compound one, and thus all complex ideas are made. 2. The second is bringing two ideas, whether simple or complex, together, and setting them by one another so as to take a view of them at once, without uniting them into one, by which it gets all its ideas of relations. 3. The third is separating them from all other ideas that accompany them in their real existence: this is called abstraction, and thus all its general ideas are made. -- John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690)

Have you ever noticed that when you sit down to write something, half the ideas that end up in it are ones you thought of while writing it? The same thing happens with software. Working to implement one idea gives you more ideas. -- Paul Graham, The other road ahead.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil. -- Cicero

You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction. ~George Lorimer

You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction. ~George Lorimer

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. –Henry David Thoreau

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