Before software can be reusable it first has to be usable. -- Ralph Johnson

There are two ways of constructing a software design; one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult. -- C. A. R. Hoare

The direct pursuit of happiness is a recipe for an unhappy life. -- Donald Campbell

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)

There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home. -- Ken Olson, President, Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977

The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution. -- Bertrand Russell

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. ~Thomas A. Edison

If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten. –Tony Robbins

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

If you’re going through hell keep going. ~Winston Churchill