Any fool can make the simple complex, only a smart person can make the complex simple. -- unknown

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

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are always cocksure and the intelligent are always filled with doubt. -- Bertrand Russell

C and Lisp stand at opposite ends of the spectrum; they're each great at what the other one sucks at. -- Steve Yegge, Tour de Babel.

Code is poetry. -- wordpress.org

A designer knows he has arrived at perfection not when there is no longuer anything to add, but when there is no longuer anything to take away. -- Antoine de St Exupery.

Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly. ~Proverb

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. –Amelia Earhart

When you stop chasing the wrong things you give the right things a chance to catch you. ~Lolly Daskal

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. –Dalai Lama