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The Work Begins Anew, The Hope Rises Again, And The Dream Lives On.
-- Ted Kennedy

Programming is the art of figuring out what you want so precisely that
even a machine can do it.
-- Some guy who isn't famous

A no uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a yes merely
uttered to please or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

What we choose to fight is so tiny!
What fights us is so great!
...
When we win it's with small things,
and the triumph itself makes us small.
...
Winning does not tempt that man.
This is how he grows: by being defeated, decisively,
by constantly greater beings.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, The Man Watching.

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

The minute you put the blame on someone else you’ve switch things from
being a problem you can control to a problem outside of your control.
-- engtech (internetducttape.com)

It is said that the real winner is the one who lives in today but able
to see tomorrow.
-- Juan Meng, Reviewing "The future of ideas" by Lawrence Lessig

An interpreter raises the machine to the level of the user program; a
compiler lowers the user program to the level of the machine language.
-- SICP

Lisp programmers know the value of everything but the cost of nothing.
-- Alan J. Perlis

Understanding why C++ is the way it is helps a programmer use it well. A deep
understanding of a tool is essential for an expert craftsman.
-- Bjarne Stroustrap

We now come to the decisive step of mathematical abstraction: we forget
about what the symbols stand for. ...[The mathematician] need not be
idle; there are many operations which he may carry out with these
symbols, without ever having to look at the things they stand for.
-- Hermann Weyl, The Mathematical Way of Thinking

An expert is, according to my working definition "someone who doesn't
need to look up answers to easy questions".
-- Eric Lippert.

Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.
-- Brian Kernigan

The best people and organizations have the attitude of wisdom: The
courage to act on what they know right now and the humility to change
course when they find better evidence.
The quest for management magic and breakthrough ideas is overrated;
being a master of the obvious is underrated.
Jim Maloney is right: Work is an overrated activity
-- Bob Sutton

The opposite of love is not hate, it is indifference.
-- Elie Wiesel