Processors don't get better so that they can have more free time. Processors get better so _you_ can have more free time. -- LeCamarade (freeshells.ch)

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. -- Benjamin Franklin

Side projects are less masturbatory than reading RSS, often more useful than MobileMe, more educational than the comments on Reddit, and usually more fun than listening to keynotes. -- Chris Wanstrath

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

Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. -- Donald Knuth

Abstraction is a form of data compression: absolutely necessary, because human short-term memory is so small, but the critically important aspect of abstraction is the algorithm that gets you from the name back to the "uncompressed" details. -- Bruce Wilder (blog post comment)

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. ~Truman Capote

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

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. ~Ralph Nader

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. –Booker T. Washington