Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well. -- Earl of Chesterfield

Within a computer natural language is unnatural. -- Alan J. Perlis (Epigrams in programming)

Side projects are less masturbatory than reading RSS, often more useful than MobileMe, more educational than the comments on Reddit, and usually more fun than listening to keynotes. -- Chris Wanstrath

The proof is by reductio ad absurdum, and reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician’s finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess gambit: a chess player may offer the sacrifice of a pawn or even a piece, but a mathematician offers the game. -- G. H. Hardy

Within a computer natural language is unnatural. -- Alan J. Perlis (Epigrams in programming)

I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind. -- Alan Kay

No masterpiece was ever created by a lazy artist.~ Anonymous

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. –Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them. ~Vaibhav Shah

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. –Steve Jobs