Being a programmer is the same way. The only way to be a good programmer is to write code. When you realize you haven't been writing much code lately, and it seems like all you do is brag about code you wrote in the past, and people start looking at you funny while you're shooting your mouth off, realize it's because they know. They might not even know they know, but they know. So, yes, doing what you love brings success, and by all means, throw yourself a nice big party, buy yourself a nice car, soak up the adulation of an adoring crowd. Then shut the fuck up and get back to work. -- Sincerity Theory

Give up control. You never really had it anyway. -- How to fail: 25 secrets learned through failure

If something isn’t working, you need to look back and figure out what got you excited in the first place. -- David Gorman (ImThere.com)

To do something well you have to love it. So to the extent you can preserve hacking as something you love, you're likely to do it well. Try to keep the sense of wonder you had about programming at age 14. If you're worried that your current job is rotting your brain, it probably is. -- Paul Graham.

Measure everything you can about the product, and you'll start seeing patterns. -- Max Levchin, PayPal founder, Talk at StartupSchool2007

You can’t get to version 500 if you don’t start with a version 1. -- BetterExplained.com

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter. ~Francis Chan

A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty. –Unknown

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

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absense of fear. ~Mark Twain