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

It(mastering)’s knowing what you are doing. -- Joesgoals.com

Humans differ from animals to the degree that they are not merely an end result of their conditioning, but are able to reflect on their experiences and strategies, and apply insight to make changes in the way they live to modify the outcome. -- SlideTrombone (comment on "Programming can ruin your life")

All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection. -- Butler Lampson

Humans aren't rational -- they rationalize. And I don't just mean "some of them" or "other people". I'm talking about everyone. We have a "logic engine" in our brains, but for the most part, it's not the one in the driver's seat -- instead it operates after the fact, generating rationalizations and excuses for our behavior. -- Paul Buchheit

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)

People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy. ~Tony Robbins

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

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time. ~George Bernard Shaw

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. –Henry Ford