Actually, the essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty. Satisfaction lies in mindful repetition, the discovery of endless richness in subtle variations on familiar themes. -- George Leonard, Mastery.

Code is poetry. -- wordpress.org

Its a shame that the students of our generation grew up with windows and mice because that tainted our mindset not to think in terms of powerful tools. Some of us are just so tainted that we will never recover. -- Jeffrey Mark Siskind in comp.lang.lisp

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. -- Frank Lloyd Wright

Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. -- Donald Knuth

You can have premature generalization as well as premature optimization. -- Bjarne Stroustrup

I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. ~Diane Ackerman

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. ~Margaret Thatcher

There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed. ~Ray Goforth

I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse. –Florence Nightingale