I was talking recently to a friend who teaches at MIT. His field is hot now and every year he is inundated by applications from would-be graduate students. "A lot of them seem smart," he said. "What I can't tell is whether they have any kind of taste." -- Paul Graham

The Work Begins Anew, The Hope Rises Again, And The Dream Lives On. -- Ted Kennedy

The programmer must seek both perfection of part and adequacy of collection. -- Alan J. Perlis

A non negative binary integer value x is a power of 2 iff (x & (x-1)) is 0 using 2's complement arithmetic. -- [fact]

If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough. -- Mario Andretti

I think the root of your mistake is saying that macros don't scale to larger groups. The real truth is that macros don't scale to stupider groups. -- Paul Graham, on the Lightweight Languages mailing list.

Believe you can and you’re halfway there. –Theodore Roosevelt

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

Do what you can, where you are, with what you have. –Teddy Roosevelt

We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained. –Marie Curie