To follow the path: look to the master, follow the master, walk with the master, see through the master, become the master. -- Modern zen Poem
Courage is grace under pressure. -- Ernest Hemingway
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. -- Mark Twain
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)
I think there’s a world market for about 5 computers. -- Thomas J. Watson, Chairman of the Board, IBM, circa 1948
Another feature about this guy is his low threshold of boredom. He'll pick up on a task and work frantically at it, accomplishing wonders in a short time and then get bored and drop it before its properly finished. He'll do nothing but strum his guitar and lie around in bed for several days after. Thats also part of the pattern too; periods of frenetic activity followed by periods of melancholia, withdrawal and inactivity. This is a bipolar personality. -- The bipolar lisp programmer
If you genuinely want something, don’t wait for it — teach yourself to be impatient. ~Gurbaksh Chahal
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. –Beverly Sills
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. –Confucius
I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. ~Thomas A. Edison