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

Never do the impossible. People will expect you to do it forever after. -- pigsandfishes.com

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)

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler. -- Albert Einstein

Normality is the route to nowhere. -- Ridderstrale & Nordstorm, Funky Business

All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. ~Walt Disney

There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed. ~Ray Goforth

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. ~Steve Jobs

I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong. –Benjamin Franklin