“Unlike [material] wealth, debts do not rot with old age and are not consumed in the process of living.” #FrederickSoddy, 1926

“Sometimes, the elegant implementation is a function. Not a method. Not a class. Not a framework. Just a function.” #JohnCarmack

“Elegance is not optional.” #RichardOKeefe, Craft Of Prolog

“Use the most natural notation available to solve a problem.” #PeterNorvig

“With diligence it is possible to make anything run slowly.” #TomDuff

“It has had a deplorable influence on the quality of modern thought.” #PeterMedawar on “academese”

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.” #FlanneryOConnor

“We shouldn't accept a theoretical framework that prioritizes model simplicity over accurately reflecting reality.” #PeterNorvig http://norvig.com/chomsky.html

“The deficiencies in analysis occurred because the focus was on the model and not on the problem.” #LeoBreiman https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.156.4933&rep=rep1&type=pdf

“Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.” #FredBrooks

“What motivated me there was the collective capability boosting peoples' collective minds.” #DougEngelbart

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” #MarieCurie

“One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code.” #KenThompson

“A week of programming can easily save you an hour of thought.” #RealmOfRacket

“Creative thought and repetitive thought are different things. For the latter there are powerful mechanical aids.” #VannevarBush https://www.w3.org/History/1945/vbush/vbush3.shtml

“To put it simply: there is a difference between technical vision and technical artefact.” http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/4/1/000081/000081.html

“That's the best analogy I can give: do you want to be locked into tricycles because they're easy to learn?” #DougEngelbart

“Designing an instrument today, our focus on ease-of-use and learning would lead us to the kazoo rather than the violin.” https://github.com/matthiasn/talk-transcripts/blob/master/Hickey_Rich/DesignCompositionPerformance-mostly-text.md

“Xanadu was intended, like Bush's Memex, to be a very personalised machine: more precisely, to empower the individual.” http://www.screeningthepast.com/issue-18-first-release/the-magical-place-of-literary-memory™-xanadu/

“We started to categorize [emacs] mentally as a programming language rather than as an editor.” https://www.gnu.org/gnu/road-to-gnu.html

“They gained experience and confidence by taking things apart to see how they work.” https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2009/10/14/opening-black-boxes/

“My experimental approach is quite foreign to their mentality and preconceived beliefs. So be it!” #RichardHamming https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/March02/Hamming/Hamming.html

“Focus on understanding why the program is doing what it's doing, rather than why it's not doing what you wanted it to.” (applies equally to human beings) #JonUdell

“In a fight, if you start thinking about what to do, you will be cut down by your opponent with the very next blow.” #YagyMunenori

“Probability theory is nothing more than common sense reduced to calculation.” #Laplace

“It is a painful thing to look at your trouble and know that you and no one else made it.” #Sophocles, seemingly on debugging

“Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!” #GeorgeBernhardShaw

“If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning.” #CatherineAird

“Search all the parks in all your cities; you'll find no statues of committees.” #DavidOgilvy

“Remember, we were doing hypertext at a time when there were no word-processing systems either.” http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/4/1/000081/000081.html