Some may say Ruby is a bad rip-off of Lisp or Smalltalk, and I admit that. But it is nicer to ordinary people. -- Matz, LL2

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

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. -- Benjamin Franklin

The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should therefore be regarded as a criminal offense. -- E.W. Dijkstra

It is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead. -- Edsger Dijkstra

Good programmers use their brains, but good guidelines save us having to think out every case. -- Francis Glassborow

If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on. –Sheryl Sandberg

If you do what you always did, you will get what you always got. ~Anonymous

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. –Alice Walker

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. –Amelia Earhart