[Innovation] comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don’t get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We’re always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it’s only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important. -- Steve Jobs

Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. -- Ferris Bueller

I’d rather write programs to write programs than write programs. -- Richard Sites

L’art qui satisfait le besoin le plus impérieux sera toujours le plus honoré. -- Charles Baudelaire, Conseils aux jeunes littérateurs.

Thus, programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute. -- Alan J. Perlis

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]

Do what you can, where you are, with what you have. –Teddy Roosevelt

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. –Steve Jobs

All progress takes place outside the comfort zone. ~Michael John Bobak

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. –Anne Frank