Linux is only free if your time has no value. -- Jamie Zawinski

Always dive down into a problem and get your hands on the deepest issue behind the problem. All other considerations are to dismissed as "engineering details"; they can be sorted out after the basic problem has been solved. -- Chris Crawford

Courage is grace under pressure. -- Ernest Hemingway

Since programmers create programs out of nothing, imagination is our only limitation. Thus, in the world of programming, the hero is the one who has great vision. Paul Graham is one of our contemporary heroes. He has the ability to embrace the vision, and to express it plainly. His works are my favorites, especially the ones describing language design. He explains secrets of programming, languages, and human nature that can only be learned from the hacker experience. This book shows you his great vision, and tells you the truth about the nature of hacking. -- Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto, creator of Ruby

C++ is history repeated as tragedy. Java is history repeated as farce. -- Scott McKay

The lesson of the story might appear to be that self-interested and ambitious people in power are often the cause of wastefulness in developing countries. But self-interested and ambitious people are in positions of power, great and small, all over the world. In many places, they are restrained by the law, the press, and democratic opposition. Cameroon's tragedy is that there is nothing to hold self-interest in check. -- Tim Harford

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. –Maya Angelou

It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. –Abraham Lincoln

Do what you can, where you are, with what you have. –Teddy Roosevelt

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him. –Booker T. Washington