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

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it's a duck. -- Official definition of "duck typing"

The best way to learn to live with our limitations is to know them. --E. W. Dijkstra, The humble programmer

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)

C++ is like teenage sex: Everybody is talking about it all the time, only few are really doing it. -- unknown

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. -- Mark Twain

I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing. ~Martha Stewart

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. –Plato

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. –Maya Angelou

Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out. ~John Wooden