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

An interpreter raises the machine to the level of the user program; a compiler lowers the user program to the level of the machine language. -- SICP

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

A guideline in the process of stepwise refinement should be the principle to decompose decisions as much as possible, to untangle aspects which are only seemingly interdependent, and to defer those decisions which concern details of representation as long as possible. -- Niklaus Wirth

A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure. -- Hugh Kingsmill

Sometimes a man with too broad a perspective reveals himself as having no real perspective at all. A man who tries too hard to see every side may be a man who is trying to avoid choosing any side. A man who tries too hard to seek a deeper truth may be trying to hide from the truth he already knows. That is not a sign of intellectual sophistication and "great thinking". It is a demonstration of moral degeneracy and cowardice. -- Steven Den Beste

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. –Leonardo da Vinci

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. –Alice Walker

The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same. ~Colin R. Davis

Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless. –Jamie Paolinetti