The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of childhood into maturity.
Thomas Henry Huxley
There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving --- by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.
Aldous Huxley
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
Aldous Huxley
You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
Aldous Huxley
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Aldous Huxley
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Thomas Huxley
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that is your own self.
Aldous Huxley
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
Aldous Huxley
To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
Aldous Huxley
The great tragedy of science --- the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
Thomas Huxley
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Aldous Huxley
Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one's native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer.
Edsger Dijkstra
Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California.
Edsger Dijkstra
The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.
Edsger Dijkstra
I never claimed infallibility. You have to leave that to experts in that field like the Pope.
Edsger Dijkstra
The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.
R. W. Hamming
If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.
George Bernard Shaw
One man's "magic" is another man's engineering. "Supernatural" is a null word.
Robert Heinlein
C++: an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog
Steve Taylor
Do I contradict myself? / Very well then I contradict myself, / (I am large, I contain multitudes.)
Walt Whitman
C++ is history repeated as tragedy. Java is history repeated as farce.
Scott McKay
A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing.
Alan J. Perlis
We should continually be striving to transform every art into a science: in the process, we advance the art.
Donald Knuth
A huge gap exists between what we know is possible with today's machines and what we have so far been able to finish.
Donald Knuth
Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.
Brian Kernighan
You cannot teach beginners top-down programming, because they don't know which end is up.
C.A.R. Hoare
