Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.

He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of the sun in their running. The crushing black vacuum of the universe. And somewhere two hunted animals trembling like ground-foxes in their cover. Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.

The goal of software engineering is to control complexity, not to create it.

真正的艺术存在于作品与观者的相遇之中。