It is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead. -- Edsger Dijkstra

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. -- Sherlock Holmes

A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing. -- Alan Perlis

Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them. -- Alan Perlis

This challenge, viz. the confrontation with the programming task, is so unique that this novel experience can teach us a lot about ourselves. It should deepen our understanding of the processes of design and creation, it should give us better control over the task of organizing our thoughts. If it did not do so, to my taste we should no deserve the computer at all! It has allready taught us a few lessons, and the one I have chosen to stress in this talk is the following. We shall do a much better programming job, provided that we approach the task with a full appreciation of its tremenduous difficulty, provided that we stick to modest and elegant programming languages, provided that we respect the intrinsec limitations of the human mind and approach the task as Very Humble Programmers. -- E. W. Dijkstra, The humble programmer

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. -- Thomas Edison

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him. –Booker T. Washington

Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. ~Lolly Daskal

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

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. –Chinese Proverb