Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment. -- Seneca

A guideline in the process of stepwise refinement should be the principle to decompose decisions as much as possible, to untangle aspects which are only seemingly interdependent, and to defer those decisions which concern details of representation as long as possible. -- Niklaus Wirth

Chance favors the prepared mind. -- Louis Pasteur

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

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)

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. -- Goethe

You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction. ~George Lorimer

If you are not willing to risk the usual you will have to settle for the ordinary. ~Jim Rohn

You can’t fall if you don’t climb. But there’s no joy in living your whole life on the ground. –Unknown

What’s the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable. ~Anonymous