My dream is that people adopt it on its own merits. We're not trying to bend Ruby on Rails to fit the enterprise, we're encouraging enterprises to bend to Ruby on Rails. Come if you like it, stay away if you don't. We're not going head over heels to accommodate the enterprise or to lure them away from Java. That's how you end up with Java, if you start bending to special interest groups. -- David Heinemeier Hansson (Ruby On Rails' creator)

I’d rather write programs to write programs than write programs. -- Richard Sites

In theory, there’s no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is. -- Albert Einstein

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies, The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. -- C.S. Lewis

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. -- Blaise Pascal (attributed)

Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. -- Thomas Edison

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. –Henry Ford

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. ~John D. Rockefeller

When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. –Helen Keller

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. –Steve Jobs