The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
Abstraction is the key to managing complexity in large software systems.
History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
What I think I've been talking about really is success and failure. And one of the interesting things about success is that we think we know what it means. If I said that there's somebody behind the screen who's very successful, certain ideas would immediately come to mind. You'd think that person might have made a lot of money, achieved renown in some field. My own theory of success -- I'm somebody who's very interested in success, I really want to be successful, always thinking, how can I be more successful? But as I get older, I'm also very nuanced about what that word "success" might mean.