We really have to get over the idea that some stuff is just worth knowing even if you never do anything with it. Human memories happily erase stuff that has no purpose, so why try to fill up children's heads with such stuff? -- Roger Schank, Engines for Education
XML wasn't designed to be edited by humans on a regular basis. -- Guido van Rossum
Sound methodology can empower and liberate the creative mind; it cannot inflame or inspire the drudge. -- Frederick P. Brooks, No Sliver Bullet.
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
In God I trust; I will not be afraid. What can mortal man do to me? -- David (Psalm 56:4)
The best way to learn to live with our limitations is to know them. --E. W. Dijkstra, The humble programmer
You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction. ~George Lorimer
Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs. –Farrah Gray
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. ~Ralph Nader
15.Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. –Charles Swindoll