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

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. -- Alfred North Whitehead (Introduction to Mathematics)

What I didn't understand was that the value of some new acquisition wasn't the difference between its retail price and what I paid for it. It was the value I derived from it. Stuff is an extremely illiquid asset. Unless you have some plan for selling that valuable thing you got so cheaply, what difference does it make what it's "worth?" The only way you're ever going to extract any value from it is to use it. And if you don't have any immediate use for it, you probably never will. -- Paul Graham

It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission. -- Rear Admiral Dr. Grace Hopper

If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution. -- Robert Sewell

C++ is history repeated as tragedy. Java is history repeated as farce. -- Scott McKay

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

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. –Leonardo da Vinci

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

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. –Martin Luther King Jr.