There really is no learning without doing. -- Roger Schank, Engines for Education

What Paul does, and does very well, is to take ideas and concepts that are beautiful in the abstract, and brings them down to a real world level. That's a rare talent to find in writing these days. -- Jeff "hemos" Bates, Director, OSDN; Co-evolver, Slashdot

Well then. How could you possibly live without automated refactoring tools? How else could you coordinate the caterpillar-like motions of all Java’s identical tiny legs, its thousands of similar parts? I’ll tell you how: Ruby is a butterfly. -- Stevey, Refactoring Trilogy, Part 1.

The best programmers are not marginally better than merely good ones. They are an order-of-magnitude better, measured by whatever standard: conceptual creativity, speed, ingenuity of design, or problem-solving ability. -- Randall E. Stross

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

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. -- Goethe

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. –Plato

I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing. ~Martha Stewart

Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. ~Anonymous

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, “I’m possible!” –Audrey Hepburn