If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. -- Rush (Freewill)

So - what are the most important problems in software engineering? I’d answer “dealing with complexity”. -- Mark Chu-Carroll

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight. -- Bill Gates

What do Americans look for in a car? I've heard many answers when I've asked this question. The answers include excellent safety ratings, great gas mileage, handling, and cornering ability, among others. I don't believe any of these. That's because the first principle of the Culture Code is that the only effective way to understand what people truly mean is to ignore what they say. This is not to suggest that people intentionally lie or misrepresent themselves. What it means is that, when asked direct questions about their interests and preferences, people tend to give answers they believe the questioner wants to hear. Again, this is not because they intend to mislead. It is because people respond to these questions with their cortexes, the parts of their brains that control intelligence rather than emotion or instinct. They ponder a question, they process a question, and when they deliver an answer, it is the product of deliberation. They believe they are telling the truth. A lie detector would confirm this. In most cases, however, they aren't saying what they mean. -- The culture code.

Work as intensely as you play and play as intensely as you work. -- Eric S. Raymond, How To Be A Hacker

Good coders code, great reuse. -- http://www.catonmat.net

Fortune sides with him who dares. ~Virgil

If you are not willing to risk the usual you will have to settle for the ordinary. ~Jim Rohn

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. –Alice Walker

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me. –Erma Bombeck