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

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

Well then. How could you possibly live without automated refactoring tools? How else could you coordinate the caterpillar-like motions of all Java’s identical tiny legs, its thousands of similar parts? I’ll tell you how: Ruby is a butterfly. -- Stevey, Refactoring Trilogy, Part 1.

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

Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called an engineering discipline. -- Bill Clinton

We tend to seek easy, single-factor explanations of success. For most important things, though, success actually requires avoiding many separate causes of failure. -- Jared Diamond

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter. ~Francis Chan

I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing. ~Martha Stewart

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. –Benjamin Franklin

An unexamined life is not worth living. –Socrates