You can have it fast, cheap, or good, pick two.

Old Engineering Maxim

Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later, and Nine women can't make a baby in one month

Brooks's law

Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming.

C.A.R. Hoare

Good design is obvious. Great design is transparent.

Joe Sparano

To persist in the face of continual rejection requires a deep love of the work itself.

Bill Watterson

If I had asked what my customers wanted, they would have said they wanted a faster horse.

Henry Ford

You should never let your fears prevent you from doing what you know is right.

Aung San Suu Kyi

When everyone agree the business opportunity is right, the opportunity no longer belongs to you.

Jack Ma

You should regard money as fuel for what you really want to do, not as a goal in and of itself.

Tim Oreilly

Playfully doing something difficult, whether useful or not, that is hacking.

Richard Matthew Stallman

Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But, since no one is listening, everything must be said again.

Andre Gide

It's not the things we do in life that we regret on our death bed, it is the things we do not.

Randy Pausch

If you're doing it for the money, you'll always be underpaid.

Scott Bell

If we take man as he is, we make him worse. But if we take him as he should be, then we make him capable of becoming what he can be.

Goethe

Irrational optimism: believe with an intensity that goes way beyond logical justification to remove all doubt.

Arsene Wenger

It is not the strongest that survives, or the most intelligent ... It is the most adaptable to change.

Charles Darwin

First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win.

Mahatma Gandhi

Things are meant to be difficult to keep those not passionate enough at bay.

Desmond Lua