"The middle of every successful project looks like a disaster."
—Rosabeth Moss Cantor
"A pair of wings, a different respiratory system, which enabled us to travel through space, would in no way help us, for if we visited Mars or Venus while keeping the same senses, they would clothe everything we could see in the same aspect as the things of the Earth. The only true voyage, the only bath in the Fountain of Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to see the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to see the hundred universes that each of them sees, that each of the is;"
“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.” Heraclitus
"Life can only be understood backward but it must be lived forward."
SÖren Kierkegaard
10:10
"the road to hell is paved with good intentions... but it is not paved with clarity!"
"the spread of clarity"
reason / logic / mathematics
"we have perfected politeness"
"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough."
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
Either appear as you are, or be as you appear.
Mies van der Rohe once said that being good is more important than being original. Originality is a product, not an intention.
Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.
If you don't know what you love, you are lost.
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
"The egg has a perfect form
even though it comes out of a butt. "
...
A tree
a slow explosion
of a seed
“Linux is only free if your time is worthless.”
The problem is we don’t understand the problem.
The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes,