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

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler. -- Albert Einstein

It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years. -- John Von Neumann, circa 1949

You think you know when you learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program. -- Alan J. Perlis (Epigrams in programming)

We really have to get over the idea that some stuff is just worth knowing even if you never do anything with it. Human memories happily erase stuff that has no purpose, so why try to fill up children's heads with such stuff? -- Roger Schank, Engines for Education

It’s hard to grasp abstractions if you don’t understand what they’re abstracting away from. -- Nathan Weizenbaum

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. –Amelia Earhart

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. ~Ralph Nader

Eighty percent of success is showing up. –Woody Allen

You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals. ~Booker T. Washington