The president was visiting NASA headquarters and stopped to talk to a man who was holding a mop. “And what do you do?” he asked. The man, a janitor, replied, “I’m helping to put a man on the moon, sir.” -- The little book of leadership

You can have premature generalization as well as premature optimization. -- Bjarne Stroustrup

Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all sentences short or avoid all detail and treat subjects only in outline, but that every word tell. -- William Strunk, Jr. (The Elements of Style)

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment. -- Seneca

Some people suggest that machines would be friendlier if input could be in a natural language. But natural language is probably the worst kind of input because it can be quite ambiguous. The process of retrieving information from the computer would be so time-consuming that you would be better off spending that time getting the information directly from an expert. -- Gary Kildall (inventor of CP/M, one of the first OS for the micro).

Everybody makes their own fun. If you don't make it yourself, it ain't fun -- it's entertainment. -- David Mamet (as relayed by Joss Whedon)

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

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

Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right. –Henry Ford

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough. ~Albert Einstein