“Pawns are really queens in disguise”

These mountains that you are carrying, you were only supposed to climb

Premature optimization is the root of all evil

Premature optimization is the root of all evil

I consider that a man’s brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. Now the skillful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain-attic. He will have nothing but the tools which may help him in doing his work, but of these he has a large assortment, and all in the most perfect order. It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Blame is not for failure, it is for failing to help or ask for help

It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.

I like the way computer scientists think because they combine some of the best features of Mathematics, Engineering, and Natural Science. Like mathematicians, computer scientists use formal languages to denote ideas (specically computations). Like engineers, they design things, assembling components into systems and evaluating tradeos among alternatives. Like scientists, they observe the behavior of complex systems, form hypotheses, and test predictions.

Você quer ser feliz por um instante? Vingue-se. Você quer ser feliz para sempre? Perdoe.

How many observe Christ’s birthday!
How few, his precepts!
O! ‘tis easier to keep holidays than commandments.

Quantos se lembram do nascimento de Cristo!
Quão poucos, de seus ensinamentos!
O! É mais fácil lembrar-se dos feriados do que dos mandamentos.