And if you go too far up, abstraction-wise, you run out of oxygen. Sometimes smart thinkers just don't know when to stop, and they create these absurd, all-encompassing, high-level pictures of the universe that are all good and fine, but don't actually mean anything at all. -- Joel Spolsky

Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them. -- Alan Perlis

Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones. -- Alan J. Perlis (Epigrams in programming)

Omit needless words. -- William Strunk, Jr. (The Elements of Style)

Humans aren't rational -- they rationalize. And I don't just mean "some of them" or "other people". I'm talking about everyone. We have a "logic engine" in our brains, but for the most part, it's not the one in the driver's seat -- instead it operates after the fact, generating rationalizations and excuses for our behavior. -- Paul Buchheit

Show, don't tell. -- unknown

If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money. –Abigail Van Buren

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself. ~Mark Caine

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. ~Steve Jobs

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. –Anne Frank