Measure everything you can about the product, and you'll start seeing patterns. -- Max Levchin, PayPal founder, Talk at StartupSchool2007

Before enlightenment, chop wood and carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood and carry water. -- Ancient Eastern adage

We now come to the decisive step of mathematical abstraction: we forget about what the symbols stand for. ...[The mathematician] need not be idle; there are many operations which he may carry out with these symbols, without ever having to look at the things they stand for. -- Hermann Weyl, The Mathematical Way of Thinking

A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure. -- Hugh Kingsmill

It's no trick for talented people to be interesting, but it's a gift to be interested. We want an organization filled with interested people. -- Randy S. Nelson (dean of Pixar University)

If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as lines produced but as lines spent. -- Edsger Dijkstra

Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. –Eleanor Roosevelt

If you don’t value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents- start charging for it. ~Kim Garst

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. –Grandma Moses

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. –Bob Dylan