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

Lisp is worth learning for the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it; that experience will make you a better programmer for the rest of your days, even if you never actually use Lisp itself a lot. -- Eric S. Raymond

XML wasn't designed to be edited by humans on a regular basis. -- Guido van Rossum

Premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming. -- Donald Knuth

Two people should stay together if together they are better people than they would be individually. -- ?

I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind. -- Alan Kay

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

There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. –Aristotle

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out. ~Robert Collier

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see. ~Anonymous