Everybody makes their own fun. If you don't make it yourself, it ain't fun -- it's entertainment. -- David Mamet (as relayed by Joss Whedon)

If there is a will, there is a way. -- unknown

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]

More computing sins are committed in the name of efficiency (without necessarily achieving it) than for any other single reason - including blind stupidity. -- W.A. Wulf

The general principle for complexity design is this: Think locally, act locally. -- Richard P. Gabriel & Ron Goldman, Mob Software: The Erotic Life of Code

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

Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly. ~Proverb

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. ~Eleanor Roosevelt

You become what you believe. –Oprah Winfrey

There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. –Aristotle