All great things require great dedication. -- Chuck Norris(?)

While I’ve always appreciated beautiful code, I share Jonathan’s concern about studying it too much. I think studying beauty in music and painting has led us to modern classical music and painting that the majority of us just don’t get. Beauty can be seen when it emerges, but isn’t something to strive for in isolation of a larger context. In the software world, the larger context would be the utility of the software to the end user. -- [A comment on a blog]

Work as intensely as you play and play as intensely as you work. -- Eric S. Raymond, How To Be A Hacker

Good coders code, great reuse. -- http://www.catonmat.net

I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind. -- Alan Kay

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)

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. ~Swami Vivekananda

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it. ~Henry Ford

If you want to achieve greatness stop asking for permission. ~Anonymous

Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see. –Confucius