Mistakes were made. -- Ronald Reagan

Some may say Ruby is a bad rip-off of Lisp or Smalltalk, and I admit that. But it is nicer to ordinary people. -- Matz, LL2

Having large case statements in an object-oriented language is a sure sign your design is flawed. -- [Fixing architecture flaws in Rails' ORM]

Humans aren't rational -- they rationalize. And I don't just mean "some of them" or "other people". I'm talking about everyone. We have a "logic engine" in our brains, but for the most part, it's not the one in the driver's seat -- instead it operates after the fact, generating rationalizations and excuses for our behavior. -- Paul Buchheit

All creativity is an extended form of a joke. -- Alan Kay

Within a computer natural language is unnatural. -- Alan J. Perlis (Epigrams in programming)

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

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

You can do anything, but not everything. ~Anonymous

Fortune sides with him who dares. ~Virgil