Premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming. -- Donald Knuth

My dream is that people adopt it on its own merits. We're not trying to bend Ruby on Rails to fit the enterprise, we're encouraging enterprises to bend to Ruby on Rails. Come if you like it, stay away if you don't. We're not going head over heels to accommodate the enterprise or to lure them away from Java. That's how you end up with Java, if you start bending to special interest groups. -- David Heinemeier Hansson (Ruby On Rails' creator)

If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution. -- Robert Sewell

Functional programming is like describing your problem to a mathematician. Imperative programming is like giving instructions to an idiot. -- arcus, #scheme on Freenode

We fail to realize that mastery is not about perfection. It's about a process, a journey. The master is the one who stays on the path day after day, year after year. The master is the one who is willing to try, and fail, and try again, for as long as he or she lives. -- George Leonard, Mastery.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for. -- Greek philosopher Epicurus

I would rather die of passion than of boredom. –Vincent van Gogh

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

Change your thoughts and you change your world. –Norman Vincent Peale

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