Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. - George Elliot or Vincent Van Gogh

Source: Google (Many quote sites on the Web are split between the two)

"All large systems that work start as small systems that work." - Stowe Boyd

UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity. - Dennis M. Ritchie

Source: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/d/dennis_ritchie.html

Software wants to become wortthless without skilled attention - don marti

(in a conversation)

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.   -Tom Stoppard

Source: http://jon.linuxworld.com/

When you ask a question about an open source product, ask the community, not one specific person. When you ask for one person to answer the question, then other people who may know the answer, might not help (in fact they almost never will, assuming you had some reason to want to know the answer from this one specific person). I've been doing this for many years. People almost never want to hear this, so I usually just ignore the questions, even if they have easy answers, because I want a community to develop, one where people help each other. That's the only way it can grow. And I want that kind of growth even more than I want you to get over this particular hurdle. 

On the other hand, if you see a newbie ask a question of someone specific, and you know the answer, and you are not the person he or she asked, go ahead and answer it. Assume the person just wants the answer, not really from anyone in particular. If they complain that your name isn't Linus or Brian or Alice, you can tell them that's true, but the answer is still the right one.

- dave winer

http://www.scripting.com/2006/01/14.html#When:8:18:54PM