The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. -- Hans Hofmann

Side projects are less masturbatory than reading RSS, often more useful than MobileMe, more educational than the comments on Reddit, and usually more fun than listening to keynotes. -- Chris Wanstrath

No problem should ever have to be solved twice. -- Eric S. Raymond, How to become a hacker

We will never become a truly paper-less society until the Palm Pilot folks come out with WipeMe 1.0. -- Andy Pierson

XML wasn't designed to be edited by humans on a regular basis. -- Guido van Rossum

Sometimes a man with too broad a perspective reveals himself as having no real perspective at all. A man who tries too hard to see every side may be a man who is trying to avoid choosing any side. A man who tries too hard to seek a deeper truth may be trying to hide from the truth he already knows. That is not a sign of intellectual sophistication and "great thinking". It is a demonstration of moral degeneracy and cowardice. -- Steven Den Beste

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. ~Maya Angelou

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. –Martin Luther King Jr.

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

What’s the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable. ~Anonymous