Improving your process won't move you from good to great design. It'll move you from bad to average.

Dissertations are not finished; they are abandoned.

I have never seen an experienced programmer who routinely made detailed flow charts before beginning to write programs.

Scientists build to learn; Engineers learn to build.

The brain alone is intricate beyond mapping, powerful beyond imitation, rich in diversity, self-protecting, and self-renewing. The secret is that it is grown, not built.

You can learn more from failure than success. In failure you're forced to find out what part did not work. But in success you can believe everything you did was great, when in fact some parts may not have worked at all. Failure forces you to face reality.

Originality is no excuse for ignorance.