Elon Musk
- Work
People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward to coming to work in the morning and enjoy working.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
- On the nature of Computing Science
Simplicity is a great virtue, but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse, complexity sells better. The computing industry is not the only one that has discovered that sore truth: so has the academic world. If you deliver a lecture that is crystal clear from beginning to end, your audience feels cheated and mutters while leaving the lecture hall, "That was all rather trivial, wasn't it?"