All creativity is an extended form of a joke. -- Alan Kay
Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams. -- Mary Ellen Kelly
Well then. How could you possibly live without automated refactoring tools? How else could you coordinate the caterpillar-like motions of all Java’s identical tiny legs, its thousands of similar parts? I’ll tell you how: Ruby is a butterfly. -- Stevey, Refactoring Trilogy, Part 1.
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)
To follow the path: look to the master, follow the master, walk with the master, see through the master, become the master. -- Modern zen Poem
Any fool can make the simple complex, only a smart person can make the complex simple. -- unknown
Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. –Arthur Ashe
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
Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. –Albert Einstein
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life — think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. ~Swami Vivekananda