While I’ve always appreciated beautiful code, I share Jonathan’s concern about studying it too much. I think studying beauty in music and painting has led us to modern classical music and painting that the majority of us just don’t get. Beauty can be seen when it emerges, but isn’t something to strive for in isolation of a larger context. In the software world, the larger context would be the utility of the software to the end user. -- [A comment on a blog]

Work as intensely as you play and play as intensely as you work. -- Eric S. Raymond, How To Be A Hacker

Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams. -- Mary Ellen Kelly

Dont give users the opportunity to lock themselves. -- unknown

Humans aren't rational -- they rationalize. And I don't just mean "some of them" or "other people". I'm talking about everyone. We have a "logic engine" in our brains, but for the most part, it's not the one in the driver's seat -- instead it operates after the fact, generating rationalizations and excuses for our behavior. -- Paul Buchheit

Hire people smarter than you. Work with people smarter than you. Listen to them. Let them lead you. Take the blame for all failures, give away the credit for all successes. -- How to fail: 25 secrets learned through failure

You become what you believe. –Oprah Winfrey

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. –Maya Angelou

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. –Maya Angelou

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see. ~Anonymous