Saying that Java is nice because it works on all OSes is like saying that anal sex is nice because it works on all genders. -- Alanna

Hence my urgent advice to all of you to reject the morals of the bestseller society and to find, to start with, your reward in your own fun. This is quite feasible, for the challenge of simplification is so fascinating that, if we do our job properly, we shall have the greatest fun in the world. -- E. W. Dijkstra, On the nature of computing science.

Code is poetry. -- wordpress.org

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. -- Galileo Galilei

I guess, when you're drunk, every woman looks beautiful and every language looks (like) a Lisp :) -- Lament, #[email protected]

Programming is the art of figuring out what you want so precisely that even a machine can do it. -- Some guy who isn't famous

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all. ~Dale Carnegie

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. –Maya Angelou

Life is about making an impact, not making an income. --Kevin Kruse

There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. –Aristotle