If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough. -- Mario Andretti

Always dive down into a problem and get your hands on the deepest issue behind the problem. All other considerations are to dismissed as "engineering details"; they can be sorted out after the basic problem has been solved. -- Chris Crawford

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for. -- Greek philosopher Epicurus

To the optimist, the glass is half full. To the pessimist, the glass is half empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be. -- author unknown (quoted in `Robust Systems', Gerald Jay Suseman)

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. -- Frank Lloyd Wright

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

You can’t fall if you don’t climb. But there’s no joy in living your whole life on the ground. –Unknown

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

I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong. –Benjamin Franklin

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. ~Mark Twain