The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. -- Hans Hofmann

It is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead. -- Edsger Dijkstra

Another feature about this guy is his low threshold of boredom. He'll pick up on a task and work frantically at it, accomplishing wonders in a short time and then get bored and drop it before its properly finished. He'll do nothing but strum his guitar and lie around in bed for several days after. Thats also part of the pattern too; periods of frenetic activity followed by periods of melancholia, withdrawal and inactivity. This is a bipolar personality. -- The bipolar lisp programmer

Hence my urgent advice to all of you to reject the morals of the bestseller society and to find, to start with, your reward in your own fun. This is quite feasible, for the challenge of simplification is so fascinating that, if we do our job properly, we shall have the greatest fun in the world. -- E. W. Dijkstra, On the nature of computing science.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil. -- Cicero

Show, don't tell. -- unknown

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement. –W. Clement Stone

Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value. ~Albert Einstein

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. –Pablo Picasso

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it. ~Henry Ford