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

We are the sum of our behaviours; excellence therefore is not an act but a habit. -- Aristotle.

It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration. -- Edsger Dijkstra

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

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies, The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. -- C.S. Lewis

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. -- Rush (Freewill)

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. –Steve Jobs

Knowledge is being aware of what you can do. Wisdom is knowing when not to do it. ~Anonymous

When you stop chasing the wrong things you give the right things a chance to catch you. ~Lolly Daskal

Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out. ~John Wooden