My dream is that people adopt it on its own merits. We're not trying to bend Ruby on Rails to fit the enterprise, we're encouraging enterprises to bend to Ruby on Rails. Come if you like it, stay away if you don't. We're not going head over heels to accommodate the enterprise or to lure them away from Java. That's how you end up with Java, if you start bending to special interest groups. -- David Heinemeier Hansson (Ruby On Rails' creator)

Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called an engineering discipline. -- Bill Clinton

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. -- Sherlock Holmes

We are the sum of our behaviours; excellence therefore is not an act but a habit. -- Aristotle.

All great things require great dedication. -- Chuck Norris(?)

As builders and creators finding the perfect solution should not be our main goal. We should find the perfect problem. -- Isaac (blog comment)

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

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. ~Maya Angelou

What’s the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable. ~Anonymous

Fall seven times and stand up eight. –Japanese Proverb