Other quotes I like

Taken from Bill Clementson's Blog, or Paul Graham's book:

"Ugly and imaginative solutions have something in common: they both break the rules."

"Technology often should be cutting-edge. In programming languages, as Erann Gat has pointed out, what 'industry best practice' actually gets you is not the best, but merely the average."

"Everyone knows it's a mistake to write your whole program by hand in machine language. What's less often understood is that there is a more general principle here: that if you have a choice of several languages, it is, all other things being equal, a mistake to program in anything but the most powerful one."

"If you want to make money at some point, remember this, because this is one of the reasons startups win. Big companies want to decrease the standard deviation of design outcomes because they want to avoid disasters. But when you damp oscillations, you lose the high points as well as the low. This is not a problem for big companies, because they don't win by making great products. Big companies win by sucking less than other big companies."