J'ai toujours préféré la folie des passions à la sagesse de l'indifférence. -- Anatole France

All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection. -- Butler Lampson

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832)

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it. -- Alan J. Perlis (Epigrams in programming)

And if you go too far up, abstraction-wise, you run out of oxygen. Sometimes smart thinkers just don't know when to stop, and they create these absurd, all-encompassing, high-level pictures of the universe that are all good and fine, but don't actually mean anything at all. -- Joel Spolsky

And if you go too far up, abstraction-wise, you run out of oxygen. Sometimes smart thinkers just don't know when to stop, and they create these absurd, all-encompassing, high-level pictures of the universe that are all good and fine, but don't actually mean anything at all. -- Joel Spolsky

The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. –Ayn Rand

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. –Arthur Ashe

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it. ~Washington Irving

If you want to achieve greatness stop asking for permission. ~Anonymous