My dream is that people adopt it on its own merits. We're not trying to bend Ruby on Rails to fit the enterprise, we're encouraging enterprises to bend to Ruby on Rails. Come if you like it, stay away if you don't. We're not going head over heels to accommodate the enterprise or to lure them away from Java. That's how you end up with Java, if you start bending to special interest groups. -- David Heinemeier Hansson (Ruby On Rails' creator)

The good thing about reinventing the wheel is that you get a round one. -- Douglas Crockford (Author of JSON and JsLint)

No art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to excel in it. -- Alberti

Good programmers use their brains, but good guidelines save us having to think out every case. -- Francis Glassborow

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. -- Galileo Galilei

C and Lisp stand at opposite ends of the spectrum; they're each great at what the other one sucks at. -- Steve Yegge, Tour de Babel.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. –Plato

I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing. ~Martha Stewart

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough. ~Albert Einstein

Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument. ~Anonymous