If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as *lines produced* but as *lines spent*. -- Edsger Dijkstra

Revolutions come from standing on the shoulders of giants and facing in a better direction. -- Alan Kay

Why teach drawing to accountants? Because drawing class doesn't just teach people to draw. It teaches them to be more observant. There's no company on earth that wouldn't benefit from having people become more observant. -- Randy S. Nelson (dean of Pixar University)

Premature abstraction is an equally grevious sin as premature optimization. -- Keith Devens

Everything that can be invented has been invented. -- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899

Training research shows that if you get speed now you can get quality later. But if you don't get speed you will never get quality in the long run. -- Philip Greenspun

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter. ~Francis Chan

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

There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. –Aristotle

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter. ~Francis Chan