Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems. (Rene Descartes, Discours de la Methode)

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. (Thomas Henry Huxley)

Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working. (Albert Giacometti (sculptor))

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former. (Albert Einstein)

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. (H. G. Wells)

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg. (Bjarne Stroustrup)

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. (Martin Luther King Jr.)

If you are going through hell, keep going. (Sir Winston Churchill)

Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. (Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower)