Quotes

  • “He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.” – Aeschylus, Agamemnon

  • “Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.” – Plutarch, Sertorius

  • “When the universe has crushed him man will still be nobler than that which kills him, because he knows that he is dying, and of its victory the universe knows nothing.” – Pascal

  • “For the game of creation, my brothers, a sacred “Yes” is needed: the spirit now wills his own will, and he who had been lost to the world now conquers the world.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

  • “May, in spite of all distractions generated by technology, all of you succeed in turning information into knowledge, knowledge into understanding, and understanding into wisdom.” - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra

  • “The explicit teaching of thinking is no trivial task, but who said that the teaching of programming is? In our terminology, the more explicitly thinking is taught, the more of a scientist the programmer will become.” –Edsger W Dijkstra

  • “Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” – Alan Kay

  • “Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.” – Harold Abelson & Gerald Jay Sussman, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

  • “You gotta know when to hold ’em,
    know when to fold ’em,
    know when to walk away,
    know when to run.”     – Kenny Rogers

  • “The critical programming concerns of software engineering and artificial intelligence tend to coalesce as the systems under investigation become larger.” – Alan Perlis

  • “The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present un­rolled for understanding” – Will and Ariel Durant

  • “Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.” – Andy Grove