Motivation is is key to success and it can make an individual soar to their intended destinations or perhaps career goals. Take a look at some of these quotes by some of the most accomplioshed thought leaders and gain that motivation.

Whether you want to uncover the secrets of the universe, or you just want to pursue a career in the 21st century, basic computer programming is an essential skill to learn

-Stephen Hawking

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.

-Rick Cook

Technology and computers are very much at the core of our economy going forward. To be prepared for the demands of the 21st century-and to take advantage of its opportunities-it is essential that more of our students today learn basic computer programming skills, no matter what field of work they want to pursue.

-Todd Park

If our designs are failing due to the constant rain of changing requirements, it is our designs that are at fault. We must somehow find a way to make our designs resilient to such changes and protect them from rotting.

-Robert Cecil Martin

You have to honor failure, because failure is just the negative space around success.

-Richard R. Nelson

A programming language is like a natural, human language in that it favors certain methaphors, images, and ways of thinking.

-Seymour Papert

A class, in Java, is where we teach objects how to behave.

-Richard E. Pattis

Code should run as fast as necessary, but no faster; something important is always traded away to increase speed.

-Richard E. Pattis