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Having large case statements in an object-oriented language is a sure sign your design is flawed. -- [Fixing architecture flaws in Rails' ORM]
While I’ve always appreciated beautiful code, I share Jonathan’s concern about studying it too much. I think studying beauty in music and painting has led us to modern classical music and painting that the majority of us just don’t get. Beauty can be seen when it emerges, but isn’t something to strive for in isolation of a larger context. In the software world, the larger context would be the utility of the software to the end user. -- [A comment on a blog]
All great things require great dedication. -- Chuck Norris(?)
The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple. -- Grady Booch
Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp. -- Philip Greenspun (Greenspun's Tenth Rule)
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. -- Mark Twain
Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. ~Maya Angelou
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. –Booker T. Washington
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. –Maya Angelou
The best reason to start an organization is to make meaning; to create a product or service to make the world a better place. ~Guy Kawasaki