In God I trust; I will not be afraid. What can mortal man do to me? -- David (Psalm 56:4)
My dream is that people adopt it on its own merits. We're not trying to bend Ruby on Rails to fit the enterprise, we're encouraging enterprises to bend to Ruby on Rails. Come if you like it, stay away if you don't. We're not going head over heels to accommodate the enterprise or to lure them away from Java. That's how you end up with Java, if you start bending to special interest groups. -- David Heinemeier Hansson (Ruby On Rails' creator)
Talkers are no good doers. -- William Shakespeare, "Henry VI"
A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing. -- Alan Perlis
That is one of the most distinctive differences between school and the real world: there is no reward for putting in a good effort. In fact, the whole concept of a "good effort" is a fake idea adults invented to encourage kids. It is not found in nature. -- Paul Graham
What we choose to fight is so tiny! What fights us is so great! ... When we win it's with small things, and the triumph itself makes us small. ... Winning does not tempt that man. This is how he grows: by being defeated, decisively, by constantly greater beings. -- Rainer Maria Rilke, The Man Watching.
You can do anything, but not everything. ~Anonymous
You can’t fall if you don’t climb. But there’s no joy in living your whole life on the ground. –Unknown
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time. ~George Bernard Shaw
I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. –Michael Jordan