Understanding why C++ is the way it is helps a programmer use it well. A deep understanding of a tool is essential for an expert craftsman. -- Bjarne Stroustrap

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

And if you go too far up, abstraction-wise, you run out of oxygen. Sometimes smart thinkers just don't know when to stop, and they create these absurd, all-encompassing, high-level pictures of the universe that are all good and fine, but don't actually mean anything at all. -- Joel Spolsky

Before enlightenment, chop wood and carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood and carry water. -- Ancient Eastern adage

The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit. -- Anonymous

Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well. -- Earl of Chesterfield

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. –Lao Tzu

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. –Les Brown

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough. ~Albert Einstein

A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them. ~Henry Kravis