The more educated you get, the better shot you have to get it right, but if you're really trying something different, it's a challenge every time.
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
All we are given are possibilities to make ourselves one thing or another.
Who ne'er his bread in sorrow ate, Who ne'er the mournful midnight hours Weeping upon his bed has sate, He knows you not, ye Heavenly Powers.
Maybe the trying is the thing. Maybe it doesn't get better than that. Maybe you never quite get there. And maybe that's okay.
Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life. If I had to give a piece of advice to a young man about a place to live, I think I should say, 'sacrifice almost everything to live where you can be near your friends.