If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as lines produced but as lines spent. -- Edsger Dijkstra

Everything that can be invented has been invented. -- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899

Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. -- Ferris Bueller

Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all sentences short or avoid all detail and treat subjects only in outline, but that every word tell. -- William Strunk, Jr. (The Elements of Style)

The acts of the mind, wherein it exerts its power over simple ideas, are chiefly these three: 1. Combining several simple ideas into one compound one, and thus all complex ideas are made. 2. The second is bringing two ideas, whether simple or complex, together, and setting them by one another so as to take a view of them at once, without uniting them into one, by which it gets all its ideas of relations. 3. The third is separating them from all other ideas that accompany them in their real existence: this is called abstraction, and thus all its general ideas are made. -- John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690)

Premature abstraction is an equally grevious sin as premature optimization. -- Keith Devens

Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. ~John R. Wooden

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. –Alice Walker

If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough. –Oprah Winfrey

Opportunities don’t happen, you create them. ~Chris Grosser