It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission. -- Rear Admiral Dr. Grace Hopper

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

If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in. -- Edsger W. Dijkstra

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

A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure. -- Hugh Kingsmill

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. -- Dr. Seuss

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. –Plato

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. –Steve Jobs

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

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe