And if you go too far up, abstraction-wise, you run out of oxygen. Sometimes smart thinkers just don't know when to stop, and they create these absurd, all-encompassing, high-level pictures of the universe that are all good and fine, but don't actually mean anything at all. -- Joel Spolsky
Since programmers create programs out of nothing, imagination is our only limitation. Thus, in the world of programming, the hero is the one who has great vision. Paul Graham is one of our contemporary heroes. He has the ability to embrace the vision, and to express it plainly. His works are my favorites, especially the ones describing language design. He explains secrets of programming, languages, and human nature that can only be learned from the hacker experience. This book shows you his great vision, and tells you the truth about the nature of hacking. -- Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto, creator of Ruby
Never do the impossible. People will expect you to do it forever after. -- pigsandfishes.com
The good thing about reinventing the wheel is that you get a round one. -- Douglas Crockford (Author of JSON and JsLint)
If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as *lines produced* but as *lines spent*. -- Edsger Dijkstra
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 successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. ~David Brinkley
Trust because you are willing to accept the risk, not because it’s safe or certain. ~Anonymous
Do what you can, where you are, with what you have. –Teddy Roosevelt
If you do what you always did, you will get what you always got. ~Anonymous