An interpreter raises the machine to the level of the user program; a compiler lowers the user program to the level of the machine language. -- SICP

Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter. -- Eric Raymond

Humans differ from animals to the degree that they are not merely an end result of their conditioning, but are able to reflect on their experiences and strategies, and apply insight to make changes in the way they live to modify the outcome. -- SlideTrombone (comment on "Programming can ruin your life")

A person won't become proficient at something until he or she has done it many times. In other words., if you want someone to be really good at building a software system, he or she will have to have built 10 or more systems of that type. -- Philip Greenspun

The lesson of the story might appear to be that self-interested and ambitious people in power are often the cause of wastefulness in developing countries. But self-interested and ambitious people are in positions of power, great and small, all over the world. In many places, they are restrained by the law, the press, and democratic opposition. Cameroon's tragedy is that there is nothing to hold self-interest in check. -- Tim Harford

Are you willing to wear your white belt? -- George Leonard, Mastery.

Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. –George Addair

Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. –George Addair

You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. –Maya Angelou

What’s the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable. ~Anonymous