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

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

To do something well you have to love it. So to the extent you can preserve hacking as something you love, you're likely to do it well. Try to keep the sense of wonder you had about programming at age 14. If you're worried that your current job is rotting your brain, it probably is. -- Paul Graham.

There really is no learning without doing. -- Roger Schank, Engines for Education

Resume writing is just like dating, or applying for a bank loan, in that nobody wants you if you're desperate. -- Steve Yegge.

The lesson of the story might appear to be that self-interested and ambitious people in power are often the cause of wastefulness in developing countries. But self-interested and ambitious people are in positions of power, great and small, all over the world. In many places, they are restrained by the law, the press, and democratic opposition. Cameroon's tragedy is that there is nothing to hold self-interest in check. -- Tim Harford

Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock and the door will be opened for you. –Jesus

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. ~Steve Jobs

Do what you can, where you are, with what you have. –Teddy Roosevelt

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. –Henry David Thoreau