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)

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent. -- Eleanor Roosevelt

Functional programming is to algorithms as the ubiquitous little black dress is to women's fashion. -- Mark Tarver (of "The bipolar Lisp programmer" fame)

The job of a leader today is not to create followers. It’s to create more leaders. -- Ralph Nader

Before software can be reusable it first has to be usable. -- Ralph Johnson

Seize any opportunity, or anything that looks like opportunity. They are rare, much rarer than you think... -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb, "The Black Swan".

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. ~Thomas A. Edison

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others. ~Bill Gates

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