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

Some may say Ruby is a bad rip-off of Lisp or Smalltalk, and I admit that. But it is nicer to ordinary people. -- Matz, LL2

Bonne bosse et reste le boss. -- Darryl Amedon

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent. -- Eleanor Roosevelt

Dont give users the opportunity to lock themselves. -- unknown

What I didn't understand was that the value of some new acquisition wasn't the difference between its retail price and what I paid for it. It was the value I derived from it. Stuff is an extremely illiquid asset. Unless you have some plan for selling that valuable thing you got so cheaply, what difference does it make what it's "worth?" The only way you're ever going to extract any value from it is to use it. And if you don't have any immediate use for it, you probably never will. -- Paul Graham

You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame. –Erica Jong

The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself--the invisible battles inside all of us--that's where it's at. –Jesse Owens

I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong. –Benjamin Franklin

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. –Les Brown