[How friendly will this machine be?] Well, I don’t think it’s a matter of friendliness, because ultimately if the program is going to accomplish anything of value, it will probably be relatively complex. -- Gary Kildall (inventor of CP/M, one of the first OS for the micro).

Before software can be reusable it first has to be usable. -- Ralph Johnson

Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming. -- Brian Kernigan

The general principle for complexity design is this: Think locally, act locally. -- Richard P. Gabriel & Ron Goldman, Mob Software: The Erotic Life of Code

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. -- Aristotle.

A society that puts equality -- in the sense of equality of outcome -- ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom. The use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom, and the force, introduced for good purposes, will end up in the hands of people who use it to promote their own interests. -- Milton Friedman (Thomas Sowell: A Conflict of Visions, p130)

There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. –Aristotle

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne

You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction. ~George Lorimer

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. –Amelia Earhart