Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp. -- Philip Greenspun (Greenspun's Tenth Rule)

Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve. -- Alan J. Perlis (Epigrams in programmi ng)

Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all sentences short or avoid all detail and treat subjects only in outline, but that every word tell. -- William Strunk, Jr. (The Elements of Style)

Some may say Ruby is a bad rip-off of Lisp or Smalltalk, and I admit that. But it is nicer to ordinary people. -- Matz, LL2

Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well. -- Earl of Chesterfield

Show, don't tell. -- unknown

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

Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless. –Jamie Paolinetti

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

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