"The act of focusing our mightiest intellectual resources on the elusive goal of goto-less programs has helped us get our minds off all those really tough and possibly unresolvable problems and issues with which today's professional programmer would otherwise have to grapple."

“There is no freeway to the future, no paved highway from here to there. There is only wilderness, uncertain terrain. There are no roadmaps, no signposts. So pioneering leaders rely upon a compass and a dream”

Source : James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner (1987). “The leadership challenge: how to get extraordinary things done in organizations”, Jossey-Bass, 1988

“I love California. It definitely represents wild freedom.”

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“It is only a moment here and a moment there that the greatest writer has. Some cognizance of the fact must be taken in your teaching.”

“I'd like to know why well-educated idiots keep apologizing for lazy and complaining people who think the world owes them a living.”

“A man of letters is often a man with two natures,--one a book nature, the other a human nature. These often clash sadly.”

“What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.”

“I never trust a fighting man who doesn't smoke or drink.”

“I couldn't adjust to the racism in Florida.”