PI seconds is a nanocentury. -- [fact]

And if you go too far up, abstraction-wise, you run out of oxygen. Sometimes smart thinkers just don't know when to stop, and they create these absurd, all-encompassing, high-level pictures of the universe that are all good and fine, but don't actually mean anything at all. -- Joel Spolsky

You can have premature generalization as well as premature optimization. -- Bjarne Stroustrup

Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte. (I have made this letter so long only because I did not have the leisure to make it shorter.) -- Blaise Pascal (Lettres Provinciales)

We tend to seek easy, single-factor explanations of success. For most important things, though, success actually requires avoiding many separate causes of failure. -- Jared Diamond

Just like carpentry, measure twice cut once. -- Super-sizing YouTube with Python (Mike Solomon, [email protected])

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

Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them. ~Vaibhav Shah

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

If you’re going through hell keep going. ~Winston Churchill