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Here are a few quotes I’ve come across [from scientists, designers, photographers, programmers, marketers, etc] over the last few days, or weeks, or months. I found them to be short and insightful, so I figured I’d keep track of them here.

If everything is important, nothing is. —Unknown

Very often people confuse simple with simplistic. The nuance is lost on most. —Clement Mok

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results. —Winston Churchill

Reflection is like refactoring. If you can measure how much you are doing, you aren’t doing enough. —Unknown

Computer Science is the only discipline in which we view adding a new wing to a building as being maintenance. —Jim Horning

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. —Aristotle

The best way to predict the future is to invent it. —Alan Kay

We don’t know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don’t always appreciate their fragility. —Malcolm Gladwell

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered. —Stanley Kubrick

Buying a Nikon doesn’t make you a photographer. It makes you a Nikon owner. —Unknown

Instinct is the gift of experience. —Malcolm Gladwell

Selling to people who actually want to hear from you is more effective than interrupting strangers who don’t. —Seth Godin

You don’t need to win every medal to be successful. —Jason Fried

In many cases, the more you try to compete, the less competitive you actually are. —Kathy Sierra

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend six sharpening my axe. —Abraham Lincoln

Amidst all the attention given to the sciences as to how they can lead to the cure of all diseases and daily problems of mankind, I believe that the biggest breakthrough will be the realization that the arts, which are conventionally considered “useless,” will be recognized as the whole reason why we ever try to live longer or live more prosperously. The arts are the science of enjoying life. —John Maeda