How do you expect to succeed if you do not know the rules?
--Anonymous
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
--John Ciardi
The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
--Alan Kay
Progress is possible only if we train ourselves to think about programs without thinking of them as pieces of executable code.
--Edsger W. Dijkstra
Happiness should be a function without any parameters.
--Pranshu Midha
Simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible.
--Alan Kay
The big optimizations come from refining the high-level design, not the individual routines.
--Steve McConnell
If the steps become to big, they become walls...
--Herb Sutter