The opposite of love is not hate, it is indifference. -- Elie Wiesel

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)

Lisp is a programmable programming language. -- John Foderaro

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

And if you go too far up, abstraction-wise, you run out of oxygen. Sometimes smart thinkers just don't know when to stop, and they create these absurd, all-encompassing, high-level pictures of the universe that are all good and fine, but don't actually mean anything at all. -- Joel Spolsky

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. -- Sherlock Holmes

Either you run the day, or the day runs you. –Jim Rohn

Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting. ~Anonymous

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

It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings. –Ann Landers