Being a programmer is the same way. The only way to be a good programmer is to write code. When you realize you haven't been writing much code lately, and it seems like all you do is brag about code you wrote in the past, and people start looking at you funny while you're shooting your mouth off, realize it's because they know. They might not even know they know, but they know. So, yes, doing what you love brings success, and by all means, throw yourself a nice big party, buy yourself a nice car, soak up the adulation of an adoring crowd. Then shut the fuck up and get back to work. -- Sincerity Theory

XML wasn't designed to be edited by humans on a regular basis. -- Guido van Rossum

When your enemy is making a very serious mistake, don't be impolite and disturb him. -- Napoleon Bonaparte (allegedly)

Software is like sex: It’s better when it’s free. -- Linus Torvalds

All great things require great dedication. -- Chuck Norris(?)

Some people suggest that machines would be friendlier if input could be in a natural language. But natural language is probably the worst kind of input because it can be quite ambiguous. The process of retrieving information from the computer would be so time-consuming that you would be better off spending that time getting the information directly from an expert. -- Gary Kildall (inventor of CP/M, one of the first OS for the micro).

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. –Bob Dylan

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. ~Pablo Picasso

Trust because you are willing to accept the risk, not because it’s safe or certain. ~Anonymous

The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. –Ayn Rand