It was Edison who said ‘1% inspiration, 99% perspiration’. That may have been true a hundred years ago. These days it's ‘0.01% inspiration, 99.99% perspiration’, and the inspiration is the easy part. -- Linux Torvalds

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

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. -- Aristotle.

I think that a lot of programmers are ignoring an important point when people talk about reducing code repetition on large projects. Part of the idea is that large projects are intrinsically *wrong*. That you should be looking at making a number of smaller projects that are composable, even if you never end up reusing one of those smaller projects elsewhere. -- Dan Nugent

It was Edison who said ‘1% inspiration, 99% perspiration’. That may have been true a hundred years ago. These days it's ‘0.01% inspiration, 99.99% perspiration’, and the inspiration is the easy part. -- Linux Torvalds

Any sufficiently advanced technology is undistinguishable from magic. -- Arthur C. Clarke

Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. –Gloria Steinem

You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction. ~George Lorimer

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. –Steve Jobs

If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on. –Sheryl Sandberg