Quotes

A collection of my favorite quotes, gathered over time.

If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late.

Reid Hoffman

I question therefore I am.

Ayush

Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.

Edsger W. Dijkstra

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

Edgar Degas

Startups rarely die in mid keystroke. So keep typing!

Paul Graham

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

Mary OliverThe Summer Day

The most damaging phrase in the language is: we’ve always done it this way.

Grace Hopper

Be humble for you are made of earth. Be noble for you are made of stars.

Serbian proverb

Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.

Harold AbelsonSICP

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool.

Richard Feynman

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

Alan Kay

Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. So if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.

Brian Kernighan

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

Albert Camus

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

Paul Valéry

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.

Viktor FranklMan's Search for Meaning

It’s better to have 100 people love you than a million people just kind of like you.

Brian Chesky

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

Pablo Picasso

There are two ways of constructing a software design: one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.

C. A. R. Hoare

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

Seneca