Simplicity means the achievement of maximum effect with minimum means. -- Dr. Koichi Kawana

A CS professor once explained recursion as follows: A child couldn't sleep, so her mother told her a story about a little frog, who couldn't sleep, so the frog's mother told her a story about a little bear, who couldn't sleep, so the bear's mother told her a story about a little weasel... who fell asleep. ...and the little bear fell asleep; ...and the little frog fell asleep; ...and the child fell asleep. -- everything2.com

I think that a lot of programmers are ignoring an important point when people talk about reducing code repetition on large projects. Part of the idea is that large projects are intrinsically *wrong*. That you should be looking at making a number of smaller projects that are composable, even if you never end up reusing one of those smaller projects elsewhere. -- Dan Nugent

It was Edison who said ‘1% inspiration, 99% perspiration’. That may have been true a hundred years ago. These days it's ‘0.01% inspiration, 99.99% perspiration’, and the inspiration is the easy part. -- Linux Torvalds

Thus, programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute. -- Alan J. Perlis

The most damaging phrase in the language is, It's always been done that way. -- Rear Admiral Grace Hopper

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter. ~Francis Chan

Believe you can and you’re halfway there. –Theodore Roosevelt

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. ~Eleanor Roosevelt

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. ~Truman Capote