Ugly programs are like ugly suspension bridges: they're much more liable to collapse than pretty ones, because the way humans (especially engineer-humans) perceive beauty is intimately related to our ability to process and understand complexity.

It requires a great deal of faith for a man to be cured by his own placebos.

John L. Mcclenahan

They have given us into the hand of new unhappy lords. Lords without anger and honor, who dare not carry their swords. They fight by shuffling papers; they have bright dead alien eyes; They look at our labor and laughter as a tired man looks at flies.

G. K. Chesterton

Although human subtlety makes a variety of inventions by different means to the same end, it will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple, or more direct than does nature, because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.

Leonardo DaVinci

The earth has music for those who listen.

William Shakespeare

For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.

Sirach

As is our confidence, so is our capacity.

William Hazlitt

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

Soren Kierkegaard

'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

Lord Byron

Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it!

Freddie Mercury

Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.

Gloria Steinem

Prejudice is an opinion without judgment

Voltaire

My own image of my work is that I no sooner settle into something than a break occurs. These breaks are always painful and depressing but despite them I see that there's a consistency that holds out, but is hard to define.

Lee Krasner