The programmer must seek both perfection of part and adequacy of collection. -- Alan J. Perlis
The job of a leader today is not to create followers. It’s to create more leaders. -- Ralph Nader
Getting back to failing early, I've learned it's important to completely fail. Get fired. Shoot the project, then burn its corpse. Melt the CVS repository and microwave the backup CDs. When things go wrong, I've often tried to play the hero from start to finish. Guess what? Some projects are doomed no matter what. Some need skills I don't possess. And some need a fresh face. -- Reginald Braithwaite
First learn computer science and all the theory. Next develop a programming style. Then forget all that and just hack. -- George Carrette
It(mastering)’s knowing what you are doing. -- Joesgoals.com
Being a programmer is the same way. The only way to be a good programmer is to write code. When you realize you haven't been writing much code lately, and it seems like all you do is brag about code you wrote in the past, and people start looking at you funny while you're shooting your mouth off, realize it's because they know. They might not even know they know, but they know. So, yes, doing what you love brings success, and by all means, throw yourself a nice big party, buy yourself a nice car, soak up the adulation of an adoring crowd. Then shut the fuck up and get back to work. -- Sincerity Theory
Either you run the day, or the day runs you. –Jim Rohn
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. ~Anonymous
Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. –Napoleon Hill
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. ~Steve Jobs