Can you see the real me, can you, can you?
-- The Who
Be what you wish to seem.
-- Socrates
"In anything at all, perfection has been attained
not when there is nothing left to add,
but when there is nothing left to take away..."
-- Antoine de Saint Exupery, "Wind, Sand and Stars"
(quoted in "Multics: The First Seven Years",
F. J. Corbato, J. H. Saltzer)
"Fast, Cheap, Good - Pick Any Two"
-- J. Noel Chiappa
(No, it's not "anonymous"; it was originally something
I put up on my whiteboard at Proteon, circa 1990; it has
been popularized by Gary Malkin in his email .sig. I have
been informed that someone else came up with a very similar
saying, apparently independently, slightly before I did.)