Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it. -- Alan J. Perlis (Epigrams in programming)

Chance favors the prepared mind. -- Louis Pasteur

Making All Software Into Tools Reduces Risk. -- smoothspan.com

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

Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve. -- Alan J. Perlis (Epigrams in programmi ng)

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

Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock and the door will be opened for you. –Jesus

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. ~Vidal Sassoon

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

You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. –Christopher Columbus