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

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.

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. -- Rush (Freewill)

I would rather be an optimist and be wrong than a pessimist who proves to be right. The former sometimes wins, but never the latter. -- "Hoots"

Do not accept anything because it comes from the mouth of a respected person. -- Buddha

Remember, always be yourself ... unless you suck! -- Joss Whedon

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. –Booker T. Washington

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life — think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. ~Swami Vivekananda

Your problem isn’t the problem. Your reaction is the problem. ~Anonymous

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life. –John Lennon