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

The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise. -- Edsger Dijkstra

Show, don't tell. -- unknown

Give up control. You never really had it anyway. -- How to fail: 25 secrets learned through failure

Abstraction is a form of data compression: absolutely necessary, because human short-term memory is so small, but the critically important aspect of abstraction is the algorithm that gets you from the name back to the "uncompressed" details. -- Bruce Wilder (blog post comment)

Well, if you talk about programming to a group of programmers who use the same language, they can become almost evangelistic about the language. They form a tight-knit community, hold to certain beliefs, and follow certain rules in their programming. It’s like a church with a programming language for a Bible. -- Gary Kildall (inventor of CP/M, one of the first OS for the micro).

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. ~Mark Twain

Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. –John Lennon

You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction. ~George Lorimer

If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much. ~ Jim Rohn