The general principle for complexity design is this: Think locally, act locally. -- Richard P. Gabriel & Ron Goldman, Mob Software: The Erotic Life of Code

No art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to excel in it. -- Alberti

To follow the path: look to the master, follow the master, walk with the master, see through the master, become the master. -- Modern zen Poem

It was Edison who said ‘1% inspiration, 99% perspiration’. That may have been true a hundred years ago. These days it's ‘0.01% inspiration, 99.99% perspiration’, and the inspiration is the easy part. -- Linux Torvalds

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment. -- Seneca

In terms of energy, it's better to make a wrong choice than none at all. -- George Leonard, Mastery.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. – Albert Einstein

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. –Henry Ford

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

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