Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight. -- Bill Gates

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

We really have to get over the idea that some stuff is just worth knowing even if you never do anything with it. Human memories happily erase stuff that has no purpose, so why try to fill up children's heads with such stuff? -- Roger Schank, Engines for Education

For complex systems, the compiler and development environment need to be in the same language that its supporting. It's the only way to grow code. -- Alan Kay

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. -- Lao­Tzu

A tail call allows a function to return the result of another function without leaving an entry on the stack. Tail recursion is a specific case of tail calling. -- ASPN : Python Cookbook : Explicit Tail Call

We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained. –Marie Curie

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

I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong. –Benjamin Franklin

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. ~Anonymous