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"The less confident you are, the more serious you have to act." – Tara Ploughman "The condition of man is already close to satiety and arrogance, and there is danger of destruction of everything in existence." – a Brahmin to Onesicritus, 327 BC, reported in Strabo's Geography "Change breaks the brittle." – Jan Houtema The sons of Hermes love to play, And only do their best when they Are told they oughtn't; Apollo's children never shrink From boring jobs but have to think Their work important. – W. H. Auden, Under Which Lyre "Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute." – Abelson & Sussman, SICP, preface to the first edition "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted." – George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture "Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.

Quotes --> "The less confident you are, the more serious you have to act." � Tara Ploughman "The condition of man is already close to satiety and arrogance, and there is danger of destruction of everything in existence." � a Brahmin to Onesicritus, 327 BC, reported in Strabo's Geography "Change breaks the brittle." � Jan Houtema The sons of Hermes love to play, And only do their best when they Are told they oughtn't; Apollo's children never shrink From boring jobs but have to think Their work important. � W. H. Auden, Under Which Lyre "Programs must be written for people to read, and only inci

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