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

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/)

I think that a lot of programmers are ignoring an important point when people talk about reducing code repetition on large projects. Part of the idea is that large projects are intrinsically *wrong*. That you should be looking at making a number of smaller projects that are composable, even if you never end up reusing one of those smaller projects elsewhere. -- Dan Nugent

Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming. -- Brian Kernigan

Photography is painting with light. -- Eric Hamilton

The only constant in the world of hi-tech is change. -- Mark Ward

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. –Ralph Waldo Emerson

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. –Arthur Ashe

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life. –John Lennon

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it. ~Henry Ford