The hardest part of design ... is keeping features out. -- Donald Norman

The only thing a man should ever be 100% convinced of is his own ignorance. -- DJ MacLean

Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it. -- Alan Kay

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

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it. -- Alan J. Perlis (Epigrams in programming)

That is one of the most distinctive differences between school and the real world: there is no reward for putting in a good effort. In fact, the whole concept of a "good effort" is a fake idea adults invented to encourage kids. It is not found in nature. -- Paul Graham

In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it. ~Jane Smiley

The best revenge is massive success. –Frank Sinatra

The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus. ~Bruce Lee

If you’re going through hell keep going. ~Winston Churchill