As builders and creators finding the perfect solution should not be our main goal. We should find the perfect problem. -- Isaac (blog comment)

Thus, programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute. -- Alan J. Perlis

The most damaging phrase in the language is, It's always been done that way. -- Rear Admiral Grace Hopper

Any code of your own that you haven’t looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else. -- Eagleson’s Law

What I didn't understand was that the value of some new acquisition wasn't the difference between its retail price and what I paid for it. It was the value I derived from it. Stuff is an extremely illiquid asset. Unless you have some plan for selling that valuable thing you got so cheaply, what difference does it make what it's "worth?" The only way you're ever going to extract any value from it is to use it. And if you don't have any immediate use for it, you probably never will. -- Paul Graham

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God. -- Alan J. Perlis (Epigrams in programming)

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. –Maya Angelou

A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty. –Unknown

Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. ~Anonymous

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