Any code of your own that you haven’t looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else. -- Eagleson’s Law

All creativity is an extended form of a joke. -- Alan Kay

The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein

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

Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well. -- Earl of Chesterfield

Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones. Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS. -- Alan Kay

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. –Michael Jordan

Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. –Gloria Steinem

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. – Albert Einstein

Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them. ~Vaibhav Shah