Simplicity means the achievement of maximum effect with minimum means. -- Dr. Koichi Kawana
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
If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it's a duck. -- Official definition of "duck typing"
To the optimist, the glass is half full. To the pessimist, the glass is half empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be. -- author unknown (quoted in `Robust Systems', Gerald Jay Suseman)
A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure. -- Hugh Kingsmill
Well, if you talk about programming to a group of programmers who use the same language, they can become almost evangelistic about the language. They form a tight-knit community, hold to certain beliefs, and follow certain rules in their programming. It’s like a church with a programming language for a Bible. -- Gary Kildall (inventor of CP/M, one of the first OS for the micro).
If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. –Latin Proverb
Good things come to people who wait, but better things come to those who go out and get them. ~Anonymous
Either you run the day, or the day runs you. –Jim Rohn
You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction. ~George Lorimer