A person won't retain proficiency at a task unless he or she has at one time learned to perform that task very rapidly. Learning research demonstrates that the skills of people who become accurate but not fast deteriorate much sooner than the skills of people who become both accurate and fast. -- Philip Greenspun

Some may say Ruby is a bad rip-off of Lisp or Smalltalk, and I admit that. But it is nicer to ordinary people. -- Matz, LL2

Software is like sex: It’s better when it’s free. -- Linus Torvalds

Ce n’est que par les beaux sentiments qu’on parvient à la fortune ! -- Charles Baudelaire, Conseils aux jeunes littérateurs.

I'm always happy to trade performance for readability as long as the former isn't already scarce. -- Crayz (Commentor on blog.raganwald.com)

Talkers are no good doers. -- William Shakespeare, "Henry VI"

The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones that do. ~Anonymous

Education costs money. But then so does ignorance. –Sir Claus Moser

It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live. –Mae Jemison

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