In the same way that market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent, software industry culture can remain stupid longer than you are alive.
No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.
Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
The more experiments you make the better.
What if they are a little coarse, and you may get your coat soiled or torn?
What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice?
Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.
Do the right thing because it is right.
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow.
It is no nation that we inhabit, but a language.
Make no mistake; our native toungue is our true fatherland.
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
True friends stab you in the front.
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.
The race is not to the swift
or the battle to the strong,
nor does food come to the wise
or wealth to the brilliant
or favor to the learned;
but time and chance happen to them all.
No plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first encounter with the main enemy forces.
In God we trust, all others must bring data.
Languages shape the way we think, or don’t.