Fools learn from experience, wise men learn from history. (Otto von Bismarck)

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. (Laozi)

Stay hungry, stay foolish. (Steve Jobs)

Done is better than perfect. (Mark Zuckerberg)

Keep it simple. (James Gosling)

I don’t have time to worry about who doesn’t like me. I’m too busy loving the people who love me. (Snoopy)

The greatest happiness for a human being is to find a job in which one can make the most of oneself. (Karl Marx)

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger? (Thomas Huxley, 1877)

“Contrariwise,” continued Tweedledee, “if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn’t, it ain’t. That’s logic.” (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass, 1872)

It is no exaggeration to say that Claude Shannon is the father of the information age, and that his academic achievements are among the greatest of the 20th century. (Commentary by the American Mathematical Society)

They who are acquainted with the present state of the theory of Symbolical Algebra, are aware, that the validity of the processes of analysis does not depend upon the interpretation of the symbols which are employed, but solely upon the laws of their combination. (George Boole, at the beginning of his book The Mathematical Analysis of Logic, 1847)