Have you ever noticed that when you sit down to write something, half the ideas that end up in it are ones you thought of while writing it? The same thing happens with software. Working to implement one idea gives you more ideas. -- Paul Graham, The other road ahead.
Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. -- Martin Golding
The best is the enemy of the good. -- Voltaire
To do something well you have to love it. So to the extent you can preserve hacking as something you love, you're likely to do it well. Try to keep the sense of wonder you had about programming at age 14. If you're worried that your current job is rotting your brain, it probably is. -- Paul Graham.
Simplicity and pragmatism beat complexity and theory any day. -- Dennis (blog comment)
If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
14.Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover. –Mark Twain
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don’t define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them. ~Denis Watiley
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. –Robert Frost
Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. –Arthur Ashe