It is said that the real winner is the one who lives in today but able to see tomorrow. -- Juan Meng, Reviewing "The future of ideas" by Lawrence Lessig
The hardest part of design ... is keeping features out. -- Donald Norman
In order to understand what another person is saying, you must assume that it is true and try to find out what it could be true of. -- George Miller
Well, if you talk about programming to a group of programmers who use the same language, they can become almost evangelistic about the language. They form a tight-knit community, hold to certain beliefs, and follow certain rules in their programming. It’s like a church with a programming language for a Bible. -- Gary Kildall (inventor of CP/M, one of the first OS for the micro).
The programmer must seek both perfection of part and adequacy of collection. -- Alan J. Perlis
A guideline in the process of stepwise refinement should be the principle to decompose decisions as much as possible, to untangle aspects which are only seemingly interdependent, and to defer those decisions which concern details of representation as long as possible. -- Niklaus Wirth
A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done. ~Vince Lombardi
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. – Albert Einstein
The mind is everything. What you think you become. –Buddha
Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them. ~Vaibhav Shah