The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple. -- Grady Booch

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. -- Benjamin Franklin

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. -- Thomas Jefferson

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

The opposite of love is not hate, it is indifference. -- Elie Wiesel

Are you willing to wear your white belt? -- George Leonard, Mastery.

We become what we think about. –Earl Nightingale

Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. –Joshua J. Marine

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. –Benjamin Franklin

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. ~Eleanor Roosevelt