The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. -- Benjamin Franklin
Chance favors the prepared mind. -- Louis Pasteur
Side projects are less masturbatory than reading RSS, often more useful than MobileMe, more educational than the comments on Reddit, and usually more fun than listening to keynotes. -- Chris Wanstrath
My dream is that people adopt it on its own merits. We're not trying to bend Ruby on Rails to fit the enterprise, we're encouraging enterprises to bend to Ruby on Rails. Come if you like it, stay away if you don't. We're not going head over heels to accommodate the enterprise or to lure them away from Java. That's how you end up with Java, if you start bending to special interest groups. -- David Heinemeier Hansson (Ruby On Rails' creator)
It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years. -- John Von Neumann, circa 1949
A hacker on a roll may be able to produce–in a period of a few months–something that a small development group (say, 7-8 people) would have a hard time getting together over a year. IBM used to report that certain programmers might be as much as 100 times as productive as other workers, or more. -- Peter Seebach
Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is. –Vince Lombardi
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. ~Steve Jobs
The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. –Ayn Rand
Eighty percent of success is showing up. –Woody Allen