The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple. -- Grady Booch

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. -- Thomas Jefferson

A person won't become proficient at something until he or she has done it many times. In other words., if you want someone to be really good at building a software system, he or she will have to have built 10 or more systems of that type. -- Philip Greenspun

I think the root of your mistake is saying that macros don't scale to larger groups. The real truth is that macros don't scale to stupider groups. -- Paul Graham, on the Lightweight Languages mailing list.

Resume writing is just like dating, or applying for a bank loan, in that nobody wants you if you're desperate. -- Steve Yegge.

La tactique, c'est ce que vous faites quand il y a quelque chose à faire; la stratégie, c'est ce que vous faites quand il n'y a rien à faire. -- Xavier Tartacover

Teach thy tongue to say, I do not know, and thous shalt progress. –Maimonides

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough. ~Albert Einstein

There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. –Aristotle

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. –Maya Angelou