“Inside every well-written large program is a well-written small program.”

        — C. A. R. Hoare

“I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.”

        — Mark Twain

“Good design is clear thinking made visible. Bad design is stupidity made visible.”

        — Edward Tufte

“Ironically, making a statement with words is the least effective method.”

        — Grey Livingston

“The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.”

        — Edward Phelps

“Americans will always reach for their lawyers first.”

        — Neil Brennan, Ignite Melbourne 2010

“Sometimes when you trade tradition for progress you wind up with neither. This isn’t one of those occasions but still, it’s a catchy saying.”

        — In Plain Sight