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

Give up control. You never really had it anyway. -- How to fail: 25 secrets learned through failure

Abstraction is a form of data compression: absolutely necessary, because human short-term memory is so small, but the critically important aspect of abstraction is the algorithm that gets you from the name back to the "uncompressed" details. -- Bruce Wilder (blog post comment)

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. -- Thomas Jefferson

To do something well you have to love it. So to the extent you can preserve hacking as something you love, you're likely to do it well. Try to keep the sense of wonder you had about programming at age 14. If you're worried that your current job is rotting your brain, it probably is. -- Paul Graham.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity. And I'm not so sure about the former. -- Albert Einstein

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. –Amelia Earhart

Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to doDon’t wish it were easier, wish you were better. ~Jim Rohn

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

All progress takes place outside the comfort zone. ~Michael John Bobak