Windows NT addresses 2 Gigabytes of RAM, which is more than any application will ever need. -- Microsoft, on the development of Windows NT, 1992

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler. -- Albert Einstein

Good programmers use their brains, but good guidelines save us having to think out every case. -- Francis Glassborow

The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple. -- Grady Booch

Abstraction is a form of data compression: absolutely necessary, because human short-term memory is so small, but the critically important aspect of abstraction is the algorithm that gets you from the name back to the "uncompressed" details. -- Bruce Wilder (blog post comment)

Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed. -- George Burns

If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough. –Oprah Winfrey

Teach thy tongue to say, I do not know, and thous shalt progress. –Maimonides

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. –Latin Proverb

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. –Martin Luther King Jr.