Functional programming is to algorithms as the ubiquitous little black dress is to women's fashion. -- Mark Tarver (of "The bipolar Lisp programmer" fame)

It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration. -- Edsger Dijkstra

Courage is grace under pressure. -- Ernest Hemingway

Opportunities that present themselves to you are the consequence -- at least partially -- of being in the right place at the right time. They tend to present themselves when you're not expecting it -- and often when you are engaged in other activities that would seem to preclude you from pursuing them. And they come and go quickly -- if you don't jump all over an opportunity, someone else generally will and it will vanish. -- Marc Andreessen (http://blog.pmarca.com/)

And if you go too far up, abstraction-wise, you run out of oxygen. Sometimes smart thinkers just don't know when to stop, and they create these absurd, all-encompassing, high-level pictures of the universe that are all good and fine, but don't actually mean anything at all. -- Joel Spolsky

Attitude is no substitute for competence. -- Eric S. Raymond, How to become a hacker

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. –Lao Tzu

15.Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. –Charles Swindoll

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

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