If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution. -- Robert Sewell

Another feature about this guy is his low threshold of boredom. He'll pick up on a task and work frantically at it, accomplishing wonders in a short time and then get bored and drop it before its properly finished. He'll do nothing but strum his guitar and lie around in bed for several days after. Thats also part of the pattern too; periods of frenetic activity followed by periods of melancholia, withdrawal and inactivity. This is a bipolar personality. -- The bipolar lisp programmer

The problem is that small examples fail to convince, and large examples are too big to follow. -- Steve Yegge.

I think there’s a world market for about 5 computers. -- Thomas J. Watson, Chairman of the Board, IBM, circa 1948

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

So the mere constraint of staying in regular contact with us will push you to make things happen, because otherwise you'll be embarrassed to tell us that you haven't done anything new since the last time we talked. -- Paul Graham (a talk at Y Combinator, for startup creators).

Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. ~John R. Wooden

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. –Booker T. Washington

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. ~Maya Angelou