The reason to do animation is caricature. Good caricature picks out the essense of the statement and removes everything else. It's not simply about reproducing reality; It's about bumping it up. -- Brad Bird, writer and director, The Incredibles

Pay attention to opportunity cost at all times. Doing one thing means not doing other things. This is a form of risk that is very easy to ignore, to your detriment. -- Marc Andreessen (http://blog.pmarca.com/)

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832)

A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure. -- Hugh Kingsmill

Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones. -- Alan J. Perlis (Epigrams in programming)

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

I would rather die of passion than of boredom. –Vincent van Gogh

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. ~Mark Twain

Good things come to people who wait, but better things come to those who go out and get them. ~Anonymous

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