If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it's a duck. -- Official definition of "duck typing"

I think that a lot of programmers are ignoring an important point when people talk about reducing code repetition on large projects. Part of the idea is that large projects are intrinsically *wrong*. That you should be looking at making a number of smaller projects that are composable, even if you never end up reusing one of those smaller projects elsewhere. -- Dan Nugent

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).

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

We remember what we learn when we care about performing better and when we believe that what we have been asked to do is representative of reality. -- Roger Schank, Engines for Education

The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit. -- Anonymous

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice. ~Wayne Dyer

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. ~Jim Ryun

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice. ~Wayne Dyer

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