The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.
Don’t take it personally when someone turns you down. Assume they are like you: busy, occupied, distracted. Try again later. It’s amazing how often a second try works.
The world is a place of infinite complexity, and we are all just trying to make sense of it.
A distributed system is one in which I can’t get any work done because some machine I’ve never heard of has crashed.