• "You know you're a teacher when you say 2, write 3, and mean 4." (Ronald Anstrom, high school teacher, Underwood, N.D. 1974)
• "Research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing." (Werner von Braun)
• "Learn from yesterday, live for today, look to tomorrow, rest this afternoon." (Snoopy)
• "The great thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings others." (Sign outside Lake Agassiz Jr. High School, Fargo, N.D.)
• "It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could be safely relegated to anyone else if a machine were used." (G. W. von Leibniz)
• "Documentation is like sex: When it's good it's great, and when it's bad it's better than nothing." (Linus Torvalds)
• "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to build bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning." (Rick Cook).