A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing. -- Alan Perlis

Simple things should be simple. Complex things should be possible. -- Alan Kay

Good programmers use their brains, but good guidelines save us having to think out every case. -- Francis Glassborow

I’d rather write programs to write programs than write programs. -- Richard Sites

If I tell you I'm good, you would probably think I'm boasting. If I tell you I'm no good, you know I'm lying. -- Bruce Lee

C++ is like teenage sex: Everybody is talking about it all the time, only few are really doing it. -- unknown

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me. –Erma Bombeck

If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough. –Oprah Winfrey

An unexamined life is not worth living. –Socrates

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing. ~Dale Carnegie