> 14. "Better" is the enemy of "good".

Alludes to Voltaire's Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien. Google Translate: http://translate.google.com/translate_t?q=Le%20mieux%20est%2.... http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Voltaire (many thought-provoking quotes)

    > 30. Engineers always wind up designing the vehicle to look like
    the initial artist's concept.

I find it really helps to have a picture in my mind of what I'm building.

    > 34. Do what you can, where you are, with what you have.

Relevant for me this day, as it includes acknowledging my own inabilities, lack of knowledge, low-quality of prototype code etc, then accepting that that's how it is right now, and acting instead of hand-wringing.