quoting Paul Graham

So I've bestowed the great honour upon Paul Graham as the best writer on software development, and I've revisited two of his essays and found this one gem:

It's not when people notice you're there that they pay attention; it's when they notice you're still there.

The idea is most likely unoriginal, but he really puts it well. He proceeds to make another interesting observation:

Problems can be improved as well as solutions. In software, an intractable problem can usually be replaced by an equivalent one that's easy to solve. Physics progressed faster as the problem became predicting observable behavior, instead of reconciling it with scripture.