Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. -- Frederick P. Brooks, No Sliver Bullet.

All creativity is an extended form of a joke. -- Alan Kay

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

In order to understand what another person is saying, you must assume that it is true and try to find out what it could be true of. -- George Miller

In OO, it's the data that is the "important" thing: you define the class which contains member data, and only incidentally contains code for manipulating the object. In FP, it's the code that's important: you define a function which contains code for working with the data, and only incidentally define what the data is. -- almkgor, on reddit

You can have premature generalization as well as premature optimization. -- Bjarne Stroustrup

You can do anything, but not everything. ~Anonymous

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. ~Truman Capote

A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them. ~Henry Kravis

You can’t fall if you don’t climb. But there’s no joy in living your whole life on the ground. –Unknown