When you’ve got the code all ripped apart, it’s like a car that’s all disassembled. You’ve got all the parts tying all over your garage and you have to replace the broken part or the car will never run. It’s not fun until the code gets back to the baseline again. -- Gary Kildall (inventor of CP/M, one of the first OS for the micro).

The good thing about reinventing the wheel is that you get a round one. -- Douglas Crockford (Author of JSON and JsLint)

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

Talkers are no good doers. -- William Shakespeare, "Henry VI"

The lesson of the story might appear to be that self-interested and ambitious people in power are often the cause of wastefulness in developing countries. But self-interested and ambitious people are in positions of power, great and small, all over the world. In many places, they are restrained by the law, the press, and democratic opposition. Cameroon's tragedy is that there is nothing to hold self-interest in check. -- Tim Harford

Seize any opportunity, or anything that looks like opportunity. They are rare, much rarer than you think... -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb, "The Black Swan".

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. –Booker T. Washington

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. –Steve Jobs

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. –Alice Walker

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement. –W. Clement Stone