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

Act from reason, and failure makes you rethink and study harder. Act from faith, and failure makes you blame someone and push harder. -- Erik Naggum

Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex, intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple, stupid behavior. -- Dee Hock, Birth of the Chaordic Age

It(mastering)’s knowing what you are doing. -- Joesgoals.com

The problem is that small examples fail to convince, and large examples are too big to follow. -- Steve Yegge.

Quality of the people is better than the quality of the business idea. Crappy people can screw up the best idea in the world. -- Hadi Partovi & Ali Partovi (iLike.com), Talk at StartupSchool2007

If you do what you always did, you will get what you always got. ~Anonymous

When you stop chasing the wrong things you give the right things a chance to catch you. ~Lolly Daskal

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. –Napoleon Hill

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time. ~George Bernard Shaw