I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. -- Galileo Galilei

It's no trick for talented people to be interesting, but it's a gift to be interested. We want an organization filled with interested people. -- Randy S. Nelson (dean of Pixar University)

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. -- Arthur C. Clarke

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. -- Sherlock Holmes

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.

Programming is the art of figuring out what you want so precisely that even a machine can do it. -- Some guy who isn't famous

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

First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end. –Aristotle

Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly. ~Proverb

Your problem isn’t the problem. Your reaction is the problem. ~Anonymous