Normality is the route to nowhere. -- Ridderstrale & Nordstorm, Funky Business
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]
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
A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing. -- Alan Perlis
A person won't retain proficiency at a task unless he or she has at one time learned to perform that task very rapidly. Learning research demonstrates that the skills of people who become accurate but not fast deteriorate much sooner than the skills of people who become both accurate and fast. -- Philip Greenspun
The best people and organizations have the attitude of wisdom: The courage to act on what they know right now and the humility to change course when they find better evidence. The quest for management magic and breakthrough ideas is overrated; being a master of the obvious is underrated. Jim Maloney is right: Work is an overrated activity -- Bob Sutton
15.Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. –Charles Swindoll
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. – Albert Einstein
Fall seven times and stand up eight. –Japanese Proverb
Education costs money. But then so does ignorance. –Sir Claus Moser