Well then. How could you possibly live without automated refactoring tools? How else could you coordinate the caterpillar-like motions of all Java’s identical tiny legs, its thousands of similar parts? I’ll tell you how: Ruby is a butterfly. -- Stevey, Refactoring Trilogy, Part 1.

The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: "I did not have time." -- WestHost weekly newsletter 14 Feb 2003

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. -- Benjamin Franklin

A society that puts equality -- in the sense of equality of outcome -- ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom. The use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom, and the force, introduced for good purposes, will end up in the hands of people who use it to promote their own interests. -- Milton Friedman (Thomas Sowell: A Conflict of Visions, p130)

All great things require great dedication. -- Chuck Norris(?)

Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed. -- George Burns

People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy. ~Tony Robbins

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself. ~Mark Caine

We become what we think about most of the time, and that’s the strangest secret. ~Earl Nightingale

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. ~Thomas Jefferson