Remember that you are humans in the first place and only after that programmers. -- Alexandru Vancea

Have you ever noticed that when you sit down to write something, half the ideas that end up in it are ones you thought of while writing it? The same thing happens with software. Working to implement one idea gives you more ideas. -- Paul Graham, The other road ahead.

Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed. -- George Burns

No problem should ever have to be solved twice. -- Eric S. Raymond, How to become a hacker

It(mastering)’s knowing what you are doing. -- Joesgoals.com

All non-trivial abstractions, to some degree, are leaky. -- Joel Spolsky (The Law of Leaky Abstractions)

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. –Plato

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. –Leonardo da Vinci

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life. –John Lennon

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. –Albert Einstein