When you’ve got the code all ripped apart, it’s like a car that’s all disassembled. You’ve got all the parts tying all over your garage and you have to replace the broken part or the car will never run. It’s not fun until the code gets back to the baseline again. -- Gary Kildall (inventor of CP/M, one of the first OS for the micro).

Everybody makes their own fun. If you don't make it yourself, it ain't fun -- it's entertainment. -- David Mamet (as relayed by Joss Whedon)

All non-trivial abstractions, to some degree, are leaky. -- Joel Spolsky (The Law of Leaky Abstractions)

I had to learn how to teach less, so that more could be learned. -- Tim Gallwey, The inner game of work

Normality is the route to nowhere. -- Ridderstrale & Nordstorm, Funky Business

Just like carpentry, measure twice cut once. -- Super-sizing YouTube with Python (Mike Solomon, [email protected])

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. –Arthur Ashe

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him. –Booker T. Washington

Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting. ~Anonymous

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. ~Eleanor Roosevelt