"Don’t dream about what you want to do, stay awake and do it."

"You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need."

"We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will."

"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."

"A man only lives once and the best strategy is always to make the most of it. Success is not the only reason for existence."

"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."

"Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute."

"Don't be scared of refactoring. Be scared of building an unmaintainable piece of crap."

"Complexity sneaks up on you. If you don't actively fight for simplicity in software, complexity will win."

"In a society that has destroyed all adventure, the only adventure left is to destroy that society."

"I understand now that boundaries between noise and sound are conventions. All boundaries are conventions, waiting to be transcended. One may transcend any convention if only one can first conceive of doing so."

"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self."

"Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them."

"The longer we can keep building, the longer we can keep creating, the more will be possible. The longer we can tolerate being incomplete."

"Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow."

"The ending isn’t any more important than the moments leading to it."

"There are only two kinds of programming languages - those people always bitch about and those nobody uses."

"As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do."

"Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value."

"Why do we fall, sir? So, that we might learn to pick ourselves up."

"Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing that a tomato doesn't belong in a fruit salad."

"Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple."

"Sto lavorando."

"Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work."

"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it."

"If you don't enjoy the doing, then do something else."

"The enemy of art is the absence of limitations."

"Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided."