First learn computer science and all the theory. Next develop a programming style. Then forget all that and just hack. -- George Carrette

Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. -- Martin Golding

A CS professor once explained recursion as follows: A child couldn't sleep, so her mother told her a story about a little frog, who couldn't sleep, so the frog's mother told her a story about a little bear, who couldn't sleep, so the bear's mother told her a story about a little weasel... who fell asleep. ...and the little bear fell asleep; ...and the little frog fell asleep; ...and the child fell asleep. -- everything2.com

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")

It's like a condom; I'd rather have it and not need it than need it and not have it. -- some chick in Alien vs. Predator, when asked why she always carries a gun

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

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.~ Oscar Wilde

The best reason to start an organization is to make meaning; to create a product or service to make the world a better place. ~Guy Kawasaki

Do what you can, where you are, with what you have. –Teddy Roosevelt

Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly. ~Proverb