Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. -- Martin Golding
Act from reason, and failure makes you rethink and study harder. Act from faith, and failure makes you blame someone and push harder. -- Erik Naggum
Some may say Ruby is a bad rip-off of Lisp or Smalltalk, and I admit that. But it is nicer to ordinary people. -- Matz, LL2
I was talking recently to a friend who teaches at MIT. His field is hot now and every year he is inundated by applications from would-be graduate students. "A lot of them seem smart," he said. "What I can't tell is whether they have any kind of taste." -- Paul Graham
This challenge, viz. the confrontation with the programming task, is so unique that this novel experience can teach us a lot about ourselves. It should deepen our understanding of the processes of design and creation, it should give us better control over the task of organizing our thoughts. If it did not do so, to my taste we should no deserve the computer at all! It has allready taught us a few lessons, and the one I have chosen to stress in this talk is the following. We shall do a much better programming job, provided that we approach the task with a full appreciation of its tremenduous difficulty, provided that we stick to modest and elegant programming languages, provided that we respect the intrinsec limitations of the human mind and approach the task as Very Humble Programmers. -- E. W. Dijkstra, The humble programmer
The only thing a man should ever be 100% convinced of is his own ignorance. -- DJ MacLean
Either you run the day, or the day runs you. –Jim Rohn
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time. ~George Bernard Shaw
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. –Dalai Lama
Life is about making an impact, not making an income. --Kevin Kruse