The best way to learn to live with our limitations is to know them. --E. W. Dijkstra, The humble programmer

Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed. -- George Burns

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

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it's a duck. -- Official definition of "duck typing"

We control complexity by building abstractions that hide details when appropriate. We control complexity by establishing conventional interfaces that enable us to construct systems by combining standard, well-understood pieces in a ``mix and match'' way. We control complexity by establishing new languages for describing a design, each of which emphasizes particular aspects of the design and deemphasizes others. -- Alan J. Perlis

Chance favors the prepared mind. -- Louis Pasteur

Change your thoughts and you change your world. –Norman Vincent Peale

If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten. –Tony Robbins

If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money. –Abigail Van Buren

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing. ~Dale Carnegie