The good thing about reinventing the wheel is that you get a round one. -- Douglas Crockford (Author of JSON and JsLint)

Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all sentences short or avoid all detail and treat subjects only in outline, but that every word tell. -- William Strunk, Jr. (The Elements of Style)

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. -- Mark Twain

Mastering isn’t a survival instinct; it’s an urge to excel. Mastering is one of the experiences that delineates us from animals. It is striving to be more tomorrow than we are today; to perfectly pitch the ball over home plate; to craft the perfect sentence in an article; to open the oven and feel the warm, richly-scented cloud telling you dinner is going to be absolutely extraordinary. We humans crave perfection, to be masters of our domain, to distinguish ourselves by sheer skill and prowess. -- Joesgoals.com

If something isn’t working, you need to look back and figure out what got you excited in the first place. -- David Gorman (ImThere.com)

Simplicity and pragmatism beat complexity and theory any day. -- Dennis (blog comment)

In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it. ~Jane Smiley

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. ~Eleanor Roosevelt

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. ~Jim Ryun

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. –Benjamin Franklin