Any code of your own that you haven’t looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else. -- Eagleson’s Law

So the mere constraint of staying in regular contact with us will push you to make things happen, because otherwise you'll be embarrassed to tell us that you haven't done anything new since the last time we talked. -- Paul Graham (a talk at Y Combinator, for startup creators).

While I’ve always appreciated beautiful code, I share Jonathan’s concern about studying it too much. I think studying beauty in music and painting has led us to modern classical music and painting that the majority of us just don’t get. Beauty can be seen when it emerges, but isn’t something to strive for in isolation of a larger context. In the software world, the larger context would be the utility of the software to the end user. -- [A comment on a blog]

Premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming. -- Donald Knuth

Act from reason, and failure makes you rethink and study harder. Act from faith, and failure makes you blame someone and push harder. -- Erik Naggum

If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough. -- Alan Kay

Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right. –Henry Ford

If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough. –Oprah Winfrey

If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough. –Oprah Winfrey

The best reason to start an organization is to make meaning; to create a product or service to make the world a better place. ~Guy Kawasaki