Having large case statements in an object-oriented language is a sure sign your design is flawed. -- [Fixing architecture flaws in Rails' ORM]

All creativity is an extended form of a joke. -- Alan Kay

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.

If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in. -- Edsger W. Dijkstra

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

The proof is by reductio ad absurdum, and reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician’s finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess gambit: a chess player may offer the sacrifice of a pawn or even a piece, but a mathematician offers the game. -- G. H. Hardy

The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones that do. ~Anonymous

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, “I’m possible!” –Audrey Hepburn

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. ~Dale Carnegie

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