Programming is the art of figuring out what you want so precisely that even a machine can do it. -- Some guy who isn't famous

A hacker on a roll may be able to produce–in a period of a few months–something that a small development group (say, 7-8 people) would have a hard time getting together over a year. IBM used to report that certain programmers might be as much as 100 times as productive as other workers, or more. -- Peter Seebach

A hacker on a roll may be able to produce–in a period of a few months–something that a small development group (say, 7-8 people) would have a hard time getting together over a year. IBM used to report that certain programmers might be as much as 100 times as productive as other workers, or more. -- Peter Seebach

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

Making All Software Into Tools Reduces Risk. -- smoothspan.com

Always dive down into a problem and get your hands on the deepest issue behind the problem. All other considerations are to dismissed as "engineering details"; they can be sorted out after the basic problem has been solved. -- Chris Crawford

If you’re going through hell keep going. ~Winston Churchill

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time. ~George Bernard Shaw

It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings. –Ann Landers

It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings. –Ann Landers