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

Good work is no done by ‘humble’ men. -- H. Hardy, A mathematician's apology.

I was talking recently to a friend who teaches at MIT. His field is hot now and every year he is inundated by applications from would-be graduate students. "A lot of them seem smart," he said. "What I can't tell is whether they have any kind of taste." -- Paul Graham

Simplicity and pragmatism beat complexity and theory any day. -- Dennis (blog comment)

A designer knows he has arrived at perfection not when there is no longuer anything to add, but when there is no longuer anything to take away. -- Antoine de St Exupery.

A person won't retain proficiency at a task unless he or she has at one time learned to perform that task very rapidly. Learning research demonstrates that the skills of people who become accurate but not fast deteriorate much sooner than the skills of people who become both accurate and fast. -- Philip Greenspun

The mind is everything. What you think you become. –Buddha

The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don’t define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them. ~Denis Watiley

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear. –Rosa Parks

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out. ~Robert Collier