Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called an engineering discipline. -- Bill Clinton

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 we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as *lines produced* but as *lines spent*. -- Edsger Dijkstra

The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise. -- Edsger Dijkstra

Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it. -- Alan Kay

Lisp programmers know the value of everything but the cost of nothing. -- Alan J. Perlis

Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable. ~Theodore N. Vail

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. –Dalai Lama

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. –Les Brown

Life is about making an impact, not making an income. --Kevin Kruse