If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough. -- Alan Kay

Since programmers create programs out of nothing, imagination is our only limitation. Thus, in the world of programming, the hero is the one who has great vision. Paul Graham is one of our contemporary heroes. He has the ability to embrace the vision, and to express it plainly. His works are my favorites, especially the ones describing language design. He explains secrets of programming, languages, and human nature that can only be learned from the hacker experience. This book shows you his great vision, and tells you the truth about the nature of hacking. -- Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto, creator of Ruby

Never do the impossible. People will expect you to do it forever after. -- pigsandfishes.com

In order to understand what another person is saying, you must assume that it is true and try to find out what it could be true of. -- George Miller

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it's a duck. -- Official definition of "duck typing"

Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all sentences short or avoid all detail and treat subjects only in outline, but that every word tell. -- William Strunk, Jr. (The Elements of Style)

Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see. –Confucius

Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly. ~Proverb

Either you run the day, or the day runs you. –Jim Rohn

The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones that do. ~Anonymous