I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. -- Thomas Jefferson

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

Simplicity and pragmatism beat complexity and theory any day. -- Dennis (blog comment)

Before software can be reusable it first has to be usable. -- Ralph Johnson

Two people should stay together if together they are better people than they would be individually. -- ?

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)

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. –Les Brown

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. ~Steve Jobs

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. ~Steve Jobs

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. –Mark Twain