Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. -- Thomas Edison
Since programmers create programs out of nothing, imagination is our only limitation. Thus, in the world of programming, the hero is the one who has great vision. Paul Graham is one of our contemporary heroes. He has the ability to embrace the vision, and to express it plainly. His works are my favorites, especially the ones describing language design. He explains secrets of programming, languages, and human nature that can only be learned from the hacker experience. This book shows you his great vision, and tells you the truth about the nature of hacking. -- Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto, creator of Ruby
Thus, programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute. -- Alan J. Perlis
In theory, there’s no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is. -- Albert Einstein
Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called an engineering discipline. -- Bill Clinton
Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment. -- Seneca
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne
If you don’t value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents- start charging for it. ~Kim Garst
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
If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten. –Tony Robbins