Within a computer natural language is unnatural. -- Alan J. Perlis (Epigrams in programming)

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

A tail call allows a function to return the result of another function without leaving an entry on the stack. Tail recursion is a specific case of tail calling. -- ASPN : Python Cookbook : Explicit Tail Call

It was Edison who said ‘1% inspiration, 99% perspiration’. That may have been true a hundred years ago. These days it's ‘0.01% inspiration, 99.99% perspiration’, and the inspiration is the easy part. -- Linux Torvalds

You think you know when you learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program. -- Alan J. Perlis (Epigrams in programming)

Revolutions come from standing on the shoulders of giants and facing in a better direction. -- Alan Kay

You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. –Wayne Gretzky

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. ~Ralph Nader

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life. –John Lennon

The starting point of all achievement is desire. ~Napolean Hill