A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer. -- Bill Gates

You must always work not just within but below your means. If you can handle three elements, handle only two. If you can handle ten, then handle five. In that way the ones you do handle, you handle with more ease, more mastery and you create a feeling of strength in reserve. -- Pablo Picasso

Premature abstraction is an equally grevious sin as premature optimization. -- Keith Devens

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God. -- Alan J. Perlis (Epigrams in programming)

Everything that can be invented has been invented. -- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899

Are you willing to wear your white belt? -- George Leonard, Mastery.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see. –Confucius

I would rather die of passion than of boredom. –Vincent van Gogh

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. ~Anonymous

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. ~Herman Melville