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

So - what are the most important problems in software engineering? I’d answer “dealing with complexity”. -- Mark Chu-Carroll

Sometimes a man with too broad a perspective reveals himself as having no real perspective at all. A man who tries too hard to see every side may be a man who is trying to avoid choosing any side. A man who tries too hard to seek a deeper truth may be trying to hide from the truth he already knows. That is not a sign of intellectual sophistication and "great thinking". It is a demonstration of moral degeneracy and cowardice. -- Steven Den Beste

I had to learn how to teach less, so that more could be learned. -- Tim Gallwey, The inner game of work

Any code of your own that you haven’t looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else. -- Eagleson’s Law

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

If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced. –Vincent Van Gogh

The starting point of all achievement is desire. ~Napolean Hill

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

The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. –Ayn Rand