Thus, programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute. -- Alan J. Perlis

The only thing a man should ever be 100% convinced of is his own ignorance. -- DJ MacLean

Hence my urgent advice to all of you to reject the morals of the bestseller society and to find, to start with, your reward in your own fun. This is quite feasible, for the challenge of simplification is so fascinating that, if we do our job properly, we shall have the greatest fun in the world. -- E. W. Dijkstra, On the nature of computing science.

The programmer must seek both perfection of part and adequacy of collection. -- Alan J. Perlis

Good work is no done by ‘humble’ men. -- H. Hardy, A mathematician's apology.

Being a programmer is the same way. The only way to be a good programmer is to write code. When you realize you haven't been writing much code lately, and it seems like all you do is brag about code you wrote in the past, and people start looking at you funny while you're shooting your mouth off, realize it's because they know. They might not even know they know, but they know. So, yes, doing what you love brings success, and by all means, throw yourself a nice big party, buy yourself a nice car, soak up the adulation of an adoring crowd. Then shut the fuck up and get back to work. -- Sincerity Theory

You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. –Maya Angelou

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success. ~Bruce Feirstein

Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. –Eleanor Roosevelt

There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. –Aristotle