Lisp programmers know the value of everything but the cost of nothing. -- Alan J. Perlis

The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple. -- Grady Booch

The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple. -- Grady Booch

Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. -- Cited by Randy Pausch

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

The lesson of the story might appear to be that self-interested and ambitious people in power are often the cause of wastefulness in developing countries. But self-interested and ambitious people are in positions of power, great and small, all over the world. In many places, they are restrained by the law, the press, and democratic opposition. Cameroon's tragedy is that there is nothing to hold self-interest in check. -- Tim Harford

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. –Maya Angelou

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. ~Dale Carnegie

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. ~John D. Rockefeller

You can’t fall if you don’t climb. But there’s no joy in living your whole life on the ground. –Unknown