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

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it. -- Alan J. Perlis (Epigrams in programming)

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment. -- Seneca

If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in. -- Edsger W. Dijkstra

La connaissance d'un défaut ne l'enlève pas, elle nous torture jusqu'à sa correction. -- Daniel Lovewin (Guillaume Kpotufe)

The acts of the mind, wherein it exerts its power over simple ideas, are chiefly these three: 1. Combining several simple ideas into one compound one, and thus all complex ideas are made. 2. The second is bringing two ideas, whether simple or complex, together, and setting them by one another so as to take a view of them at once, without uniting them into one, by which it gets all its ideas of relations. 3. The third is separating them from all other ideas that accompany them in their real existence: this is called abstraction, and thus all its general ideas are made. -- John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690)

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. –Confucius

Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to doDon’t wish it were easier, wish you were better. ~Jim Rohn

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. –Pablo Picasso

Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. –Eleanor Roosevelt