- Chaos theory
- When the present determines the future, but the approximate present does not approximately determine the future. - Edward Lorenz
- Code
- If you can’t write it down in English, you can’t code it - Peter Halpern, via Jon Bentley
- Prioritize
- There is no such thing as two equally urgent projects, only priorities that haven’t been made clear yet. - Unknown
- Regular expression
- Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I’ll use regular expressions.” Now they have two problems. - Jamie Zawinski
- Science
- When people thought the earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together. - Isaac Asimov