An interpreter raises the machine to the level of the user program; a compiler lowers the user program to the level of the machine language. -- SICP

He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. -- Matthew 5:45

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.

Revolutions come from standing on the shoulders of giants and facing in a better direction. -- Alan Kay

My dream is that people adopt it on its own merits. We're not trying to bend Ruby on Rails to fit the enterprise, we're encouraging enterprises to bend to Ruby on Rails. Come if you like it, stay away if you don't. We're not going head over heels to accommodate the enterprise or to lure them away from Java. That's how you end up with Java, if you start bending to special interest groups. -- David Heinemeier Hansson (Ruby On Rails' creator)

And if you go too far up, abstraction-wise, you run out of oxygen. Sometimes smart thinkers just don't know when to stop, and they create these absurd, all-encompassing, high-level pictures of the universe that are all good and fine, but don't actually mean anything at all. -- Joel Spolsky

We become what we think about most of the time, and that’s the strangest secret. ~Earl Nightingale

The starting point of all achievement is desire. ~Napolean Hill

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Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter. ~Francis Chan