No matter how much you plan you’re likely to get half wrong anyway. So don’t do the ‘paralysis through analysis’ thing. That only slows progress and saps morale. -- 37 Signal, Getting real

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. -- Hans Hofmann

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)

Well then. How could you possibly live without automated refactoring tools? How else could you coordinate the caterpillar-like motions of all Java’s identical tiny legs, its thousands of similar parts? I’ll tell you how: Ruby is a butterfly. -- Stevey, Refactoring Trilogy, Part 1.

Do not accept anything because it comes from the mouth of a respected person. -- Buddha

That is the inevitable human response. We’re reluctant to believe that great discoveries are in the air. We want to believe that great discoveries are in our heads—and to each party in the multiple the presence of the other party is invariably cause for suspicion. -- Malcolm Gladwell, Who says big ideas are rare?

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. ~Dale Carnegie

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. –Henry Ford

Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock and the door will be opened for you. –Jesus

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, “I’m possible!” –Audrey Hepburn