First learn computer science and all the theory. Next develop a programming style. Then forget all that and just hack. -- George Carrette

When you’ve got the code all ripped apart, it’s like a car that’s all disassembled. You’ve got all the parts tying all over your garage and you have to replace the broken part or the car will never run. It’s not fun until the code gets back to the baseline again. -- Gary Kildall (inventor of CP/M, one of the first OS for the micro).

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. -- Galileo Galilei

This challenge, viz. the confrontation with the programming task, is so unique that this novel experience can teach us a lot about ourselves. It should deepen our understanding of the processes of design and creation, it should give us better control over the task of organizing our thoughts. If it did not do so, to my taste we should no deserve the computer at all! It has allready taught us a few lessons, and the one I have chosen to stress in this talk is the following. We shall do a much better programming job, provided that we approach the task with a full appreciation of its tremenduous difficulty, provided that we stick to modest and elegant programming languages, provided that we respect the intrinsec limitations of the human mind and approach the task as Very Humble Programmers. -- E. W. Dijkstra, The humble programmer

Chance favors the prepared mind. -- Louis Pasteur

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler. -- Albert Einstein

Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock and the door will be opened for you. –Jesus

When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. –Helen Keller

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. –Maya Angelou

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