Before software can be reusable it first has to be usable. -- Ralph Johnson

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]

It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years. -- John Von Neumann, circa 1949

All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection. -- Butler Lampson

You can’t get to version 500 if you don’t start with a version 1. -- BetterExplained.com

All great things require great dedication. -- Chuck Norris(?)

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

All progress takes place outside the comfort zone. ~Michael John Bobak

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it. ~Washington Irving

The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it. –Chinese Proverb