Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it. -- Alan J. Perlis (Epigrams in programming)

L’art qui satisfait le besoin le plus impérieux sera toujours le plus honoré. -- Charles Baudelaire, Conseils aux jeunes littérateurs.

First learn computer science and all the theory. Next develop a programming style. Then forget all that and just hack. -- George Carrette

The wonderful and frustrating thing about understanding yourself is that nobody can do it for you. -- BetterExplained.com

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

Be the change you want to see in the world. -- Mahatma Gandhi

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. –Latin Proverb

Knowledge is being aware of what you can do. Wisdom is knowing when not to do it. ~Anonymous

Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. ~Winston Churchill

If you are not willing to risk the usual you will have to settle for the ordinary. ~Jim Rohn