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

Philosophy: the finding of bad reasons for what one believes by instinct. -- Brave New World (paraphrased)

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight. -- Bill Gates

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results. -- Winston Churchill

Since programmers create programs out of nothing, imagination is our only limitation. Thus, in the world of programming, the hero is the one who has great vision. Paul Graham is one of our contemporary heroes. He has the ability to embrace the vision, and to express it plainly. His works are my favorites, especially the ones describing language design. He explains secrets of programming, languages, and human nature that can only be learned from the hacker experience. This book shows you his great vision, and tells you the truth about the nature of hacking. -- Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto, creator of Ruby

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

Your problem isn’t the problem. Your reaction is the problem. ~Anonymous

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter. ~Francis Chan

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. ~Eleanor Roosevelt

Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. ~Anonymous