Act from reason, and failure makes you rethink and study harder. Act from faith, and failure makes you blame someone and push harder. -- Erik Naggum

If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as lines produced but as lines spent. -- Edsger Dijkstra

All great things require great dedication. -- Chuck Norris(?)

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)

I think that a lot of programmers are ignoring an important point when people talk about reducing code repetition on large projects. Part of the idea is that large projects are intrinsically *wrong*. That you should be looking at making a number of smaller projects that are composable, even if you never end up reusing one of those smaller projects elsewhere. -- Dan Nugent

Any code of your own that you haven’t looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else. -- Eagleson’s Law

Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. –George Addair

The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors. ~Napoleon Hill

Successful entrepreneurs are givers and not takers of positive energy. ~Anonymous

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