The best way to learn to live with our limitations is to know them. --E. W. Dijkstra, The humble programmer

This challenge, viz. the confrontation with the programming task, is so unique that this novel experience can teach us a lot about ourselves. It should deepen our understanding of the processes of design and creation, it should give us better control over the task of organizing our thoughts. If it did not do so, to my taste we should no deserve the computer at all! It has allready taught us a few lessons, and the one I have chosen to stress in this talk is the following. We shall do a much better programming job, provided that we approach the task with a full appreciation of its tremenduous difficulty, provided that we stick to modest and elegant programming languages, provided that we respect the intrinsec limitations of the human mind and approach the task as Very Humble Programmers. -- E. W. Dijkstra, The humble programmer

Work as intensely as you play and play as intensely as you work. -- Eric S. Raymond, How To Be A Hacker

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

Write it properly first. It's easier to make a correct program fast, than to make a fast program correct. -- http://www.cpax.org.uk/prg/

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

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him. –Booker T. Washington

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

Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless. –Jamie Paolinetti