Wealth is what people want, and if people aren’t using your software, maybe it’s not just because you’re bad at marketing.

The way to create something beautiful is often to make subtle tweaks to something that already exists, or to combine existing ideas in a slightly new way. This kind of work is hard to convey in a research paper.

You don’t want small in the sense of a village, but small in the sense of an all-star team.

If you could travel back in a time machine, one thing would be true no matter where you went: you’d have to watch what you said.

The statements that make people mad are the ones they worry might be believed. I suspect the statements that make people maddest are those they worry might be true.

In hacking, like painting, work comes in cycles.

If you’re in a job that feels safe, you are not going to get rich, because if there is no danger there is almost certainly no leverage.

The border between architecture and engineering is not sharply defined, but it’s there. It falls between what and how: architects decide what to do, and engineers figure out how to do it.

should be “i pensieri stretti & il viso sciolto.” Closed thoughts and an open face. Smile at everyone, and don’t tell