Having large case statements in an object-oriented language is a sure sign your design is flawed. -- [Fixing architecture flaws in Rails' ORM]

When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. -- unknown

If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as *lines produced* but as *lines spent*. -- Edsger Dijkstra

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. -- Aristotle.

A guideline in the process of stepwise refinement should be the principle to decompose decisions as much as possible, to untangle aspects which are only seemingly interdependent, and to defer those decisions which concern details of representation as long as possible. -- Niklaus Wirth

What is truth? -- Pontius Pilate

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. –Leonardo da Vinci

If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on. –Sheryl Sandberg

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. –Steve Jobs

Good things come to people who wait, but better things come to those who go out and get them. ~Anonymous