I think it is wise, and only honest, to warn you that my goal is immodest. It is not my purpose to "transfer knowledge" to you that, subsequently, you can forget again. My purpose is no less than to effectuate in each of you a noticeable, irreversable change. I want you to gain, for the rest of your lives, the insight that beautiful proofs are not "found" by trial anf error but are the result of a consciously applied design discipline. I want you to raise your quality standards. I mean, if 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself "Dijkstra would not have liked this", well, that would be enough immortality for me. -- E. W. Dijkstra

An expert is, according to my working definition "someone who doesn't need to look up answers to easy questions". -- Eric Lippert.

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

Just like carpentry, measure twice cut once. -- Super-sizing YouTube with Python (Mike Solomon, [email protected])

We are the sum of our behaviours; excellence therefore is not an act but a habit. -- Aristotle.

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

You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them. ~Michael Jordan

Trust because you are willing to accept the risk, not because it’s safe or certain. ~Anonymous

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it. ~Washington Irving

Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. ~Lolly Daskal