Humans aren't rational -- they rationalize. And I don't just mean "some of them" or "other people". I'm talking about everyone. We have a "logic engine" in our brains, but for the most part, it's not the one in the driver's seat -- instead it operates after the fact, generating rationalizations and excuses for our behavior. -- Paul Buchheit

Any sufficiently advanced technology is undistinguishable from magic. -- Arthur C. Clarke

We now come to the decisive step of mathematical abstraction: we forget about what the symbols stand for. ...[The mathematician] need not be idle; there are many operations which he may carry out with these symbols, without ever having to look at the things they stand for. -- Hermann Weyl, The Mathematical Way of Thinking

All creativity is an extended form of a joke. -- Alan Kay

Another feature about this guy is his low threshold of boredom. He'll pick up on a task and work frantically at it, accomplishing wonders in a short time and then get bored and drop it before its properly finished. He'll do nothing but strum his guitar and lie around in bed for several days after. Thats also part of the pattern too; periods of frenetic activity followed by periods of melancholia, withdrawal and inactivity. This is a bipolar personality. -- The bipolar lisp programmer

Simplicity means the achievement of maximum effect with minimum means. -- Dr. Koichi Kawana

Fall seven times and stand up eight. –Japanese Proverb

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.~ Oscar Wilde

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it. ~Henry Ford

Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs. –Farrah Gray