The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. -- Hans Hofmann

Actually, the essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty. Satisfaction lies in mindful repetition, the discovery of endless richness in subtle variations on familiar themes. -- George Leonard, Mastery.

Premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming. -- Donald Knuth

The only constant in the world of hi-tech is change. -- Mark Ward

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

I think that a lot of programmers are ignoring an important point when people talk about reducing code repetition on large projects. Part of the idea is that large projects are intrinsically *wrong*. That you should be looking at making a number of smaller projects that are composable, even if you never end up reusing one of those smaller projects elsewhere. -- Dan Nugent

The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. –Ayn Rand

The best revenge is massive success. –Frank Sinatra

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. –Stephen Covey

People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily. –Zig Ziglar