No matter how much you plan you’re likely to get half wrong anyway. So don’t do the ‘paralysis through analysis’ thing. That only slows progress and saps morale. -- 37 Signal, Getting real

You think you know when you learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program. -- Alan J. Perlis (Epigrams in programming)

While I’ve always appreciated beautiful code, I share Jonathan’s concern about studying it too much. I think studying beauty in music and painting has led us to modern classical music and painting that the majority of us just don’t get. Beauty can be seen when it emerges, but isn’t something to strive for in isolation of a larger context. In the software world, the larger context would be the utility of the software to the end user. -- [A comment on a blog]

I guess, when you're drunk, every woman looks beautiful and every language looks (like) a Lisp :) -- Lament, #[email protected]

You can’t get to version 500 if you don’t start with a version 1. -- BetterExplained.com

Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well. -- Earl of Chesterfield

Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. –John Lennon

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out. ~Robert Collier

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. ~Maya Angelou

You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame. –Erica Jong