Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.

Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.

There is no such thing as a free variable.

Any noun can be verbed.

A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.

Optimization hinders evolution. Everything should be built top-down, except the first time. Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.