The trouble with the world is that the stupid are always cocksure and the intelligent are always filled with doubt. -- Bertrand Russell

Being a programmer is the same way. The only way to be a good programmer is to write code. When you realize you haven't been writing much code lately, and it seems like all you do is brag about code you wrote in the past, and people start looking at you funny while you're shooting your mouth off, realize it's because they know. They might not even know they know, but they know. So, yes, doing what you love brings success, and by all means, throw yourself a nice big party, buy yourself a nice car, soak up the adulation of an adoring crowd. Then shut the fuck up and get back to work. -- Sincerity Theory

No problem should ever have to be solved twice. -- Eric S. Raymond, How to become a hacker

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. -- Benjamin Franklin

First learn computer science and all the theory. Next develop a programming style. Then forget all that and just hack. -- George Carrette

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

If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced. –Vincent Van Gogh

Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. –Gloria Steinem

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. ~Pablo Picasso

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. –Booker T. Washington