Are you willing to wear your white belt? -- George Leonard, Mastery.

What is truth? -- Pontius Pilate

Any fool can make the simple complex, only a smart person can make the complex simple. -- unknown

It is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead. -- Edsger Dijkstra

Before enlightenment, chop wood and carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood and carry water. -- Ancient Eastern adage

While I’ve always appreciated beautiful code, I share Jonathan’s concern about studying it too much. I think studying beauty in music and painting has led us to modern classical music and painting that the majority of us just don’t get. Beauty can be seen when it emerges, but isn’t something to strive for in isolation of a larger context. In the software world, the larger context would be the utility of the software to the end user. -- [A comment on a blog]

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. –Plato

Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out. ~John Wooden

Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock and the door will be opened for you. –Jesus

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. –Robert Frost