The good thing about reinventing the wheel is that you get a round one. -- Douglas Crockford (Author of JSON and JsLint)

Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. -- Ferris Bueller

The choice of the university is mostly important for the piece of paper you get at the end. The education you get depends on you. -- Andreas Zwinkau

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. -- Blaise Pascal (attributed)

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)

An expert is, according to my working definition "someone who doesn't need to look up answers to easy questions". -- Eric Lippert.

Eighty percent of success is showing up. –Woody Allen

We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained. –Marie Curie

Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. –John Lennon

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. –Arthur Ashe