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

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. -- Mark Twain

Well then. How could you possibly live without automated refactoring tools? How else could you coordinate the caterpillar-like motions of all Java’s identical tiny legs, its thousands of similar parts? I’ll tell you how: Ruby is a butterfly. -- Stevey, Refactoring Trilogy, Part 1.

A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure. -- Hugh Kingsmill

No one is all evil. Everybody has a good side. If you keep waiting, it will comme up. -- Randy Pausch

You can’t get to version 500 if you don’t start with a version 1. -- BetterExplained.com

There are no traffic jams along the extra mile. –Roger Staubach

An unexamined life is not worth living. –Socrates

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. ~Vidal Sassoon

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. –Henry Ford