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

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

A hacker on a roll may be able to produce–in a period of a few months–something that a small development group (say, 7-8 people) would have a hard time getting together over a year. IBM used to report that certain programmers might be as much as 100 times as productive as other workers, or more. -- Peter Seebach

Bonne bosse et reste le boss. -- Darryl Amedon

Any sufficiently advanced technology is undistinguishable from magic. -- Arthur C. Clarke

Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. -- Cited by Randy Pausch

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself. ~Mark Caine

If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much. ~ Jim Rohn

Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right. –Henry Ford

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. ~David Brinkley