"A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add,but when there is nothing left to take away." - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"One person's syntax is another person's semantics." -- Joseph Goguen
"Ugly programs are like ugly suspension bridges: they're much more liable to collapse than pretty ones, because the way humans (especially engineer-humans) perceive beauty is intimately related to our ability to process and understand complexity. A language that makes it hard to write elegant code makes it hard to write good code." - Eric S. Raymond
"It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures." - Alan J. Perlis
"Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible." - Alan Kay