The wonderful and frustrating thing about understanding yourself is that nobody can do it for you. -- BetterExplained.com

The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein

- If you give him a penny for his thoughts, you'd get change. - Not the sharpest knife in the drawer. - A prime candidate for natural deselection. -- [Ideas for flamewars]

But what is it good for? -- Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, commenting on the microchip, 1968

Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well. -- Earl of Chesterfield

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)

If you’re going through hell keep going. ~Winston Churchill

We become what we think about most of the time, and that’s the strangest secret. ~Earl Nightingale

Success is...knowing your purpose in life, growing to reach your maximum potential, and sowing seeds that benefit others. ~ John C. Maxwell

Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see. –Confucius