An expert is, according to my working definition "someone who doesn't need to look up answers to easy questions". -- Eric Lippert.
Humans aren't rational -- they rationalize. And I don't just mean "some of them" or "other people". I'm talking about everyone. We have a "logic engine" in our brains, but for the most part, it's not the one in the driver's seat -- instead it operates after the fact, generating rationalizations and excuses for our behavior. -- Paul Buchheit
C’s great for what it’s great for. -- Ben Hoyts (micropledge)
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)
Have you ever noticed that when you sit down to write something, half the ideas that end up in it are ones you thought of while writing it? The same thing happens with software. Working to implement one idea gives you more ideas. -- Paul Graham, The other road ahead.
1 - Creativity and innovation always build on the past. 2 - The past always tries to control the creativity that builds on it. 3 - Free societies enable the future by limiting the past. 4 - Ours is less and less a free society. -- Lawrence Lessig, Free Culture.
I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse. –Florence Nightingale
I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear. –Rosa Parks
You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. –Maya Angelou
It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings. –Ann Landers