Omit needless words. -- William Strunk, Jr. (The Elements of Style)

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil. -- Cicero

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

There are two ways of constructing a software design; one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult. -- C. A. R. Hoare

For complex systems, the compiler and development environment need to be in the same language that its supporting. It's the only way to grow code. -- Alan Kay

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. -- Aristotle.

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.~ Oscar Wilde

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. ~Eleanor Roosevelt

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter. ~Francis Chan

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself. ~Mark Caine