"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is." -Jan L.A. van de Snepscheut "I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." - Thomas Jefferson "Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems." - Rene Descartes "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." - Martin Luther King Jr. "Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right." - Henry Ford "Do, or do not. There is no 'try'." -Yoda ('The Empire Strikes Back') "The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it." - Oscar Wilde "Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed." - George Burns "I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves." - Ludwig Wittgenstein "The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense." - Edsgar Dijkstra "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 "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." - Paul Erdos "Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." - Albert Einstein
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