The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public. -- Anonymous

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. -- Mark Twain

The problem is that Microsoft just has no taste. And I don't mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way. -- Steve Jobs

The lesson of the story might appear to be that self-interested and ambitious people in power are often the cause of wastefulness in developing countries. But self-interested and ambitious people are in positions of power, great and small, all over the world. In many places, they are restrained by the law, the press, and democratic opposition. Cameroon's tragedy is that there is nothing to hold self-interest in check. -- Tim Harford

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]

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. -- Alfred North Whitehead (Introduction to Mathematics)

Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly. ~Proverb

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. –Napoleon Hill

The best revenge is massive success. –Frank Sinatra

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. ~Jim Ryun