PI seconds is a nanocentury. -- [fact]

An expert is, according to my working definition "someone who doesn't need to look up answers to easy questions". -- Eric Lippert.

The choice of the university is mostly important for the piece of paper you get at the end. The education you get depends on you. -- Andreas Zwinkau

It's no trick for talented people to be interesting, but it's a gift to be interested. We want an organization filled with interested people. -- Randy S. Nelson (dean of Pixar University)

Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp. -- Philip Greenspun (Greenspun's Tenth Rule)

All non-trivial abstractions, to some degree, are leaky. -- Joel Spolsky (The Law of Leaky Abstractions)

The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don’t define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them. ~Denis Watiley

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. –Robert Frost

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away. ~Anonymous

The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus. ~Bruce Lee