"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." -C.A.R. Hoare



"The most beautiful and deepest experience a man can have is the sense of the mysterious. It is the underlying principle of religion as well as all serious endeavour in art and science. He who never had this experience seems to me, if not dead, then at least blind. To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is a something that our mind cannot grasp and whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly and as a feeble reflection, this is religiousness. In this sense I am religious. To me it suffices to wonder at these secrets and to attempt humbly to grasp with my mind a mere image of the lofty structure of all that there is." -AIbert Einstein



Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer; Art is everything else.
- Donald Knuth in Reader's Digest, July 1987



"[There is a] computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you play with them!" (Richard P. Feynman, Reminiscenes of Los Alamos, 1943 - 1945)



Luck favours the prepared mind - Louis Pasteur



The best is yet to come. We've only scratched the surface. Computers can only do what we tell them now, but it will be different in the future. - Claude Shannon



One thing about kneading that pizza dough by hand -- it sure gets your fingernails clean! Pizzaria Friend of Danny



A research triumph is easier to achieve than it may seem, because the researchers who do the work also do most of the reporting.
"Nick Tredennick and Brion Shimamoto, Mercy, Mercy, Merced,Microprocessor Report," v. 13, i. 12, Sept. 13, 1999.

You never get a second chance to make a good first impression. [H. Jackson Brown]

WHERE THE MIND IS WITHOUT FEAR
Where the mind is without fear
and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up into
by narrow domestic walls;
Where words come out from
depth of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches
arms towards perfection;
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost
way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;
Where the mind is led forward by Thee into
thought and action--
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father,
my country awake.
[Rabindra Nath Tagore]