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
Ne te mets pas de limite, la vie se chargera de la mettre a ta place. -- Darryl AMEDON
Good programmers use their brains, but good guidelines save us having to think out every case. -- Francis Glassborow
The acts of the mind, wherein it exerts its power over simple ideas, are chiefly these three: 1. Combining several simple ideas into one compound one, and thus all complex ideas are made. 2. The second is bringing two ideas, whether simple or complex, together, and setting them by one another so as to take a view of them at once, without uniting them into one, by which it gets all its ideas of relations. 3. The third is separating them from all other ideas that accompany them in their real existence: this is called abstraction, and thus all its general ideas are made. -- John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690)
Programmers are in a race with the Universe to create bigger and better idiot-proof programs, while the Universe is trying to create bigger and better idiots. So far the Universe is winning. -- Rich Cook
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. -- Alfred North Whitehead (Introduction to Mathematics)
The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors. ~Napoleon Hill
The best reason to start an organization is to make meaning; to create a product or service to make the world a better place. ~Guy Kawasaki
When you stop chasing the wrong things you give the right things a chance to catch you. ~Lolly Daskal
There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed. ~Ray Goforth