lines worth keeping.

“Pessimists sound smart. Optimists make money.”

“Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes… the ones who see things differently — they're not fond of rules… You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things… they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.”

“Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”

“Premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming.”

“And I like large parties. They're so intimate. At small parties there isn't any privacy.”

“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.”

“Don't let schooling interfere with your education.”

“Everything in any way beautiful has its beauty of itself, inherent and self-sufficient: praise is no part of it. At any rate, praise does not make anything better or worse. This applies even to the popular conception of beauty, as in material things or works of art. So does the truly beautiful need anything beyond itself? No more than law, no more than truth, no more than kindness or integrity. Which of these things derives its beauty from praise, or withers under criticism? Does an emerald lose its quality if it is not praised? And what of gold, ivory, purple, a lyre, a dagger, a flower, a bush?”