While I’ve always appreciated beautiful code, I share Jonathan’s concern about studying it too much. I think studying beauty in music and painting has led us to modern classical music and painting that the majority of us just don’t get. Beauty can be seen when it emerges, but isn’t something to strive for in isolation of a larger context. In the software world, the larger context would be the utility of the software to the end user. -- [A comment on a blog]

Show, don't tell. -- unknown

The programmer must seek both perfection of part and adequacy of collection. -- Alan J. Perlis

Any code of your own that you haven’t looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else. -- Eagleson’s Law

[Innovation] comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don’t get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We’re always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it’s only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important. -- Steve Jobs

A no uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a yes merely uttered to please or what is worse, to avoid trouble. -- Mahatma Gandhi

Successful entrepreneurs are givers and not takers of positive energy. ~Anonymous

A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty. –Unknown

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life. –John Lennon

Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. ~Lolly Daskal