Simplicity and pragmatism beat complexity and theory any day. -- Dennis (blog comment)
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Well, if you talk about programming to a group of programmers who use the same language, they can become almost evangelistic about the language. They form a tight-knit community, hold to certain beliefs, and follow certain rules in their programming. It’s like a church with a programming language for a Bible. -- Gary Kildall (inventor of CP/M, one of the first OS for the micro).
Photography is painting with light. -- Eric Hamilton
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
Two people should stay together if together they are better people than they would be individually. -- ?
The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. –Ayn Rand
I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing. ~Martha Stewart
Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, “I’m possible!” –Audrey Hepburn
You may only succeed if you desire succeeding; you may only fail if you do not mind failing. ~Philippos