Training research shows that if you get speed now you can get quality later. But if you don't get speed you will never get quality in the long run. -- Philip Greenspun

Never do the impossible. People will expect you to do it forever after. -- pigsandfishes.com

Resume writing is just like dating, or applying for a bank loan, in that nobody wants you if you're desperate. -- Steve Yegge.

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

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment. -- Seneca

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

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. ~Dale Carnegie

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

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. –Maya Angelou

You become what you believe. –Oprah Winfrey