Well then. How could you possibly live without automated refactoring tools? How else could you coordinate the caterpillar-like motions of all Java’s identical tiny legs, its thousands of similar parts? I’ll tell you how: Ruby is a butterfly. -- Stevey, Refactoring Trilogy, Part 1.

That is the inevitable human response. We’re reluctant to believe that great discoveries are in the air. We want to believe that great discoveries are in our heads—and to each party in the multiple the presence of the other party is invariably cause for suspicion. -- Malcolm Gladwell, Who says big ideas are rare?

You can’t get to version 500 if you don’t start with a version 1. -- BetterExplained.com

Premature abstraction is an equally grevious sin as premature optimization. -- Keith Devens

Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. -- Martin Golding

Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. -- Martin Golding

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear. –Rosa Parks

The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same. ~Colin R. Davis

Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. –Eleanor Roosevelt

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all. ~Dale Carnegie