Any code of your own that you haven’t looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else. -- Eagleson’s Law
It is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead. -- Edsger Dijkstra
The acts of the mind, wherein it exerts its power over simple ideas, are chiefly these three: 1. Combining several simple ideas into one compound one, and thus all complex ideas are made. 2. The second is bringing two ideas, whether simple or complex, together, and setting them by one another so as to take a view of them at once, without uniting them into one, by which it gets all its ideas of relations. 3. The third is separating them from all other ideas that accompany them in their real existence: this is called abstraction, and thus all its general ideas are made. -- John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690)
[How friendly will this machine be?] Well, I don’t think it’s a matter of friendliness, because ultimately if the program is going to accomplish anything of value, it will probably be relatively complex. -- Gary Kildall (inventor of CP/M, one of the first OS for the micro).
Simplicity takes effort-- genius, even. -- Paul Graham
Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. -- Thomas Edison
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. –Henry Ford
Change your thoughts and you change your world. –Norman Vincent Peale
Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out. ~John Wooden
You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. –Maya Angelou