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

The most damaging phrase in the language is, It's always been done that way. -- Rear Admiral Grace Hopper

Making All Software Into Tools Reduces Risk. -- smoothspan.com

Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them. -- Alan Perlis

In general, we can think of data as defined by some collection of selectors and constructors, together with specified conditions that these procedures must fulfill in order to be a valid representation. -- SICP, What is meant by data?

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

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life — think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. ~Swami Vivekananda

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. –Maya Angelou

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. –Henry Ford

You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. –Christopher Columbus