If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution. -- Robert Sewell

A person won't become proficient at something until he or she has done it many times. In other words., if you want someone to be really good at building a software system, he or she will have to have built 10 or more systems of that type. -- Philip Greenspun

There are two ways of constructing a software design; one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult. -- C. A. R. Hoare

We now come to the decisive step of mathematical abstraction: we forget about what the symbols stand for. ...[The mathematician] need not be idle; there are many operations which he may carry out with these symbols, without ever having to look at the things they stand for. -- Hermann Weyl, The Mathematical Way of Thinking

I had to learn how to teach less, so that more could be learned. -- Tim Gallwey, The inner game of work

Seize any opportunity, or anything that looks like opportunity. They are rare, much rarer than you think... -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb, "The Black Swan".

Do one thing every day that scares you. ~Anonymous

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

Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. ~John R. Wooden

If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten. –Tony Robbins