Well, if you talk about programming to a group of programmers who use the same language, they can become almost evangelistic about the language. They form a tight-knit community, hold to certain beliefs, and follow certain rules in their programming. It’s like a church with a programming language for a Bible. -- Gary Kildall (inventor of CP/M, one of the first OS for the micro).

The hardest part of design ... is keeping features out. -- Donald Norman

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

The direct pursuit of happiness is a recipe for an unhappy life. -- Donald Campbell

Sound methodology can empower and liberate the creative mind; it cannot inflame or inspire the drudge. -- Frederick P. Brooks, No Sliver Bullet.

You must always work not just within but below your means. If you can handle three elements, handle only two. If you can handle ten, then handle five. In that way the ones you do handle, you handle with more ease, more mastery and you create a feeling of strength in reserve. -- Pablo Picasso

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear. –Rosa Parks

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

Eighty percent of success is showing up. –Woody Allen

If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten. –Tony Robbins