When you’ve got the code all ripped apart, it’s like a car that’s all disassembled. You’ve got all the parts tying all over your garage and you have to replace the broken part or the car will never run. It’s not fun until the code gets back to the baseline again. -- Gary Kildall (inventor of CP/M, one of the first OS for the micro).

That is one of the most distinctive differences between school and the real world: there is no reward for putting in a good effort. In fact, the whole concept of a "good effort" is a fake idea adults invented to encourage kids. It is not found in nature. -- Paul Graham

No one is all evil. Everybody has a good side. If you keep waiting, it will comme up. -- Randy Pausch

I was talking recently to a friend who teaches at MIT. His field is hot now and every year he is inundated by applications from would-be graduate students. "A lot of them seem smart," he said. "What I can't tell is whether they have any kind of taste." -- Paul Graham

Programming is the art of figuring out what you want so precisely that even a machine can do it. -- Some guy who isn't famous

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

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter. ~Francis Chan

If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work. ~Thomas J. Watson

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. –Pablo Picasso

The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don’t define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them. ~Denis Watiley