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

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

Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter. -- Eric Raymond

Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. -- Donald Knuth

Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. -- Frederick P. Brooks, No Sliver Bullet.

It is better to be quiet and thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. -- WikiHow

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time. ~George Bernard Shaw

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. ~Truman Capote

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. –Latin Proverb

It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings. –Ann Landers