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)

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

So the mere constraint of staying in regular contact with us will push you to make things happen, because otherwise you'll be embarrassed to tell us that you haven't done anything new since the last time we talked. -- Paul Graham (a talk at Y Combinator, for startup creators).

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. -- Elie Wiesel

Linux is only free if your time has no value. -- Jamie Zawinski

Humans aren't rational -- they rationalize. And I don't just mean "some of them" or "other people". I'm talking about everyone. We have a "logic engine" in our brains, but for the most part, it's not the one in the driver's seat -- instead it operates after the fact, generating rationalizations and excuses for our behavior. -- Paul Buchheit

All progress takes place outside the comfort zone. ~Michael John Bobak

Thinking should become your capital asset, no matter whatever ups and downs you come across in your life. ~Dr. APJ Kalam

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing. ~Dale Carnegie

I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing. ~Martha Stewart