Philosophy: the finding of bad reasons for what one believes by instinct. -- Brave New World (paraphrased)

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

Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones. Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS. -- Alan Kay

- If you give him a penny for his thoughts, you'd get change. - Not the sharpest knife in the drawer. - A prime candidate for natural deselection. -- [Ideas for flamewars]

That is the inevitable human response. We’re reluctant to believe that great discoveries are in the air. We want to believe that great discoveries are in our heads—and to each party in the multiple the presence of the other party is invariably cause for suspicion. -- Malcolm Gladwell, Who says big ideas are rare?

The lesson of the story might appear to be that self-interested and ambitious people in power are often the cause of wastefulness in developing countries. But self-interested and ambitious people are in positions of power, great and small, all over the world. In many places, they are restrained by the law, the press, and democratic opposition. Cameroon's tragedy is that there is nothing to hold self-interest in check. -- Tim Harford

If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on. –Sheryl Sandberg

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. –Henry David Thoreau

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it. ~Henry Ford

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. ~Herman Melville