Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. -- Mark Twain

J'ai toujours préféré la folie des passions à la sagesse de l'indifférence. -- Anatole France

A CS professor once explained recursion as follows: A child couldn't sleep, so her mother told her a story about a little frog, who couldn't sleep, so the frog's mother told her a story about a little bear, who couldn't sleep, so the bear's mother told her a story about a little weasel... who fell asleep. ...and the little bear fell asleep; ...and the little frog fell asleep; ...and the child fell asleep. -- everything2.com

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)

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

Write it properly first. It's easier to make a correct program fast, than to make a fast program correct. -- http://www.cpax.org.uk/prg/

Your problem isn’t the problem. Your reaction is the problem. ~Anonymous

There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed. ~Ray Goforth

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. –Bill Cosby

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. –Plato