Humans differ from animals to the degree that they are not merely an end result of their conditioning, but are able to reflect on their experiences and strategies, and apply insight to make changes in the way they live to modify the outcome. -- SlideTrombone (comment on "Programming can ruin your life")

:nunmap can also be used outside of a monastery. -- Vim user manual

The acts of the mind, wherein it exerts its power over simple ideas, are chiefly these three: 1. Combining several simple ideas into one compound one, and thus all complex ideas are made. 2. The second is bringing two ideas, whether simple or complex, together, and setting them by one another so as to take a view of them at once, without uniting them into one, by which it gets all its ideas of relations. 3. The third is separating them from all other ideas that accompany them in their real existence: this is called abstraction, and thus all its general ideas are made. -- John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690)

Simple things should be simple. Complex things should be possible. -- Alan Kay

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

A society that puts equality -- in the sense of equality of outcome -- ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom. The use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom, and the force, introduced for good purposes, will end up in the hands of people who use it to promote their own interests. -- Milton Friedman (Thomas Sowell: A Conflict of Visions, p130)

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others. ~Bill Gates

If you genuinely want something, don’t wait for it — teach yourself to be impatient. ~Gurbaksh Chahal

Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions. –Dalai Lama

You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction. ~George Lorimer