Chance favors the prepared mind. -- Louis Pasteur

Premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming. -- Donald Knuth

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. -- Frank Lloyd Wright

There is one meaning [for static in C]: a global variable that is invisible outside the current scope, be it a function or a file. -- Paolo Bonzini

Lisp is worth learning for the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it; that experience will make you a better programmer for the rest of your days, even if you never actually use Lisp itself a lot. -- Eric S. Raymond

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. -- Thomas Edison

Knowledge is being aware of what you can do. Wisdom is knowing when not to do it. ~Anonymous

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life. –John Lennon

Teach thy tongue to say, I do not know, and thous shalt progress. –Maimonides

Do one thing every day that scares you. ~Anonymous