Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. -- Martin Golding

What I didn't understand was that the value of some new acquisition wasn't the difference between its retail price and what I paid for it. It was the value I derived from it. Stuff is an extremely illiquid asset. Unless you have some plan for selling that valuable thing you got so cheaply, what difference does it make what it's "worth?" The only way you're ever going to extract any value from it is to use it. And if you don't have any immediate use for it, you probably never will. -- Paul Graham

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent. -- Eleanor Roosevelt

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.

- If you give him a penny for his thoughts, you'd get change. - Not the sharpest knife in the drawer. - A prime candidate for natural deselection. -- [Ideas for flamewars]

Remember that you are humans in the first place and only after that programmers. -- Alexandru Vancea

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear. –Rosa Parks

No masterpiece was ever created by a lazy artist.~ Anonymous

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. –Bill Cosby

Teach thy tongue to say, I do not know, and thous shalt progress. –Maimonides