I think it is wise, and only honest, to warn you that my goal is immodest. It is not my purpose to "transfer knowledge" to you that, subsequently, you can forget again. My purpose is no less than to effectuate in each of you a noticeable, irreversable change. I want you to gain, for the rest of your lives, the insight that beautiful proofs are not "found" by trial anf error but are the result of a consciously applied design discipline. I want you to raise your quality standards. I mean, if 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself "Dijkstra would not have liked this", well, that would be enough immortality for me. -- E. W. Dijkstra
Wear your best for your execution and stand dignified. Your last recourse against randomness is how you act — if you can’t control outcomes, you can control the elegance of your behaviour. You will always have the last word. -- Nassim Taleb
Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832)
Within a computer natural language is unnatural. -- Alan J. Perlis (Epigrams in programming)
I guess, when you're drunk, every woman looks beautiful and every language looks (like) a Lisp :) -- Lament, #[email protected]
It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission. -- Rear Admiral Dr. Grace Hopper
What’s the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable. ~Anonymous
You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. –Maya Angelou
Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. –Joshua J. Marine
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. –Confucius