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

Fools! Don't they know that tears are a woman's most effective weapon? -- Catwoman (The Batman TV Series, episode 83)

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. -- Lao­Tzu

Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. -- Ferris Bueller

If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as lines produced but as lines spent. -- Edsger Dijkstra

A society that puts equality -- in the sense of equality of outcome -- ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom. The use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom, and the force, introduced for good purposes, will end up in the hands of people who use it to promote their own interests. -- Milton Friedman (Thomas Sowell: A Conflict of Visions, p130)

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter. ~Francis Chan

Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see. –Confucius

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. ~Ralph Nader

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