Hence my urgent advice to all of you to reject the morals of the bestseller society and to find, to start with, your reward in your own fun. This is quite feasible, for the challenge of simplification is so fascinating that, if we do our job properly, we shall have the greatest fun in the world. -- E. W. Dijkstra, On the nature of computing science.

The only constant in the world of hi-tech is change. -- Mark Ward

The lesson of the story might appear to be that self-interested and ambitious people in power are often the cause of wastefulness in developing countries. But self-interested and ambitious people are in positions of power, great and small, all over the world. In many places, they are restrained by the law, the press, and democratic opposition. Cameroon's tragedy is that there is nothing to hold self-interest in check. -- Tim Harford

Programming is the art of figuring out what you want so precisely that even a machine can do it. -- Some guy who isn't famous

Windows NT addresses 2 Gigabytes of RAM, which is more than any application will ever need. -- Microsoft, on the development of Windows NT, 1992

State is the root of all evil. In particular functions with side effects should be avoided. -- OO Sucks (bluetail.com)

Your problem isn’t the problem. Your reaction is the problem. ~Anonymous

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

Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value. ~Albert Einstein

15.Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. –Charles Swindoll