So - what are the most important problems in software engineering? I’d answer “dealing with complexity”. -- Mark Chu-Carroll

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. -- Elie Wiesel

Simplicity and pragmatism beat complexity and theory any day. -- Dennis (blog comment)

It is better to be quiet and thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. -- WikiHow

Functional programming is to algorithms as the ubiquitous little black dress is to women's fashion. -- Mark Tarver (of "The bipolar Lisp programmer" fame)

Lisp has jokingly been called "the most intelligent way to misuse a computer". I think that description is a great compliment because it transmits the full flavor of liberation: it has assisted a number of our most gifted fellow humans in thinking previously impossible thoughts. -- Edsger Dijkstra, CACM, 15:10

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. ~Vidal Sassoon

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

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. –Booker T. Washington

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. –Henry Ford