Some of my favorite quotes mostly about tech and life stuff.
"Seek first to understand then to be understood."
"If the code and the comments do not match, possibly both are incorrect."
"Simplicity, carried to the extreme, becomes elegance."
"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler."
"He is not deceived who knows himself to be deceived."
"Programming without an overall architecture or design in mind is like exploring a cave with only a flashlight: You don’t know where you’ve been, you don’t know where you’re going, and you don’t know quite where you are."
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge."
"Physics is the universe’s operating system."
"When you are stuck in a traffic jam with a Porsche, all you do is burn more gas in idle. Scalability is about building wider roads, not about building faster cars."
"Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute."
"Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."
"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."
"A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing."
"A moment of pain is worth a lifetime of pleasure."
"What we obtain to cheap we esteem to lightly."
"The best way to predict the future is to create it."
"To whom much is given, much is expected."
"It’s better to wait for a productive programmer to become available than it is to wait for the first available programmer to become productive."
"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance."
"Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate."
"Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself."
"Being able to break security doesn’t make you a hacker anymore than being able to hotwire cars makes you an automotive engineer."
"Commenting your code is like cleaning your bathroom — you never want to do it, but it really does create a more pleasant experience for you and your guests."
"True evil is, above all things, seductive. When the Devil knocks at your door, he doesn’t have cloven hooves. He is beautiful, and offers you your heart’s desire in whispered airs. Like a siren, beckoning you to ruinous shore."
"Leave everything you were outside this door. Everything you are, bring with you."
"The more you know, the more you realize you know nothing."