Quotes

Finance

The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent. — John Maynard Keynes

Thales [of Miletus — P.B.], so the story goes, because of his poverty was taunted with the uselessness of philosophy; but from his knowledge of astronomy he had observed while it was still winter that there was going to be a large crop of olives, so he raised a small sum of money and paid round deposits for the whole of the olive-presses in Miletus and Chios, which he hired at a low rent as nobody was running him up; and when the season arrived, there was a sudden demand for a number of presses at the same time, and by letting them out on what terms he liked he realised a large sum of money, so proving that it is easy for philosophers to be rich if they choose, but this is not what they care about. — Aristotle, Politics, 1259a.

The most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build. — Bjarne Stroustrup
Premature optimisation is the root of all evil. — C. A. R. Hoare
An ancient joke about C++ was that the language is called C++ and not ++C because the language is improved (incremented), but many people still use it as C (the previous value). — Herb Sutter
Assembly language programming is an extravagant waste of human talent and should be avoided whenever possible. — Peter Norton (who wrote several books on the assembly language)

A happy man according to Thales of Miletus: "ὁ τὸ μὲν σῶμα ὑγιής, τὴν δὲ ψυχὴν εὔπορος, τὴν δὲ φύσιν εὐπαίδευτος" ("who is healthy in body, resourceful in soul and of a readily teachable nature").
I have made this letter longer than usual, because I lack the time to make it short. — Blaise Pascal
Proof by analogy is fraud. — Bjarne Stroustrup
People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't. — Bjarne Stroustrup
ignoranus [ĭg'nə-rā'nəs] — 1. (n.) A person who is both stupid and an a**hole. (unwords.com)
Many people would sooner die than think; in fact they do so. — Bertrand Russel