If something isn’t working, you need to look back and figure out what got you excited in the first place. -- David Gorman (ImThere.com)

Revolutions come from standing on the shoulders of giants and facing in a better direction. -- Alan Kay

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

This challenge, viz. the confrontation with the programming task, is so unique that this novel experience can teach us a lot about ourselves. It should deepen our understanding of the processes of design and creation, it should give us better control over the task of organizing our thoughts. If it did not do so, to my taste we should no deserve the computer at all! It has allready taught us a few lessons, and the one I have chosen to stress in this talk is the following. We shall do a much better programming job, provided that we approach the task with a full appreciation of its tremenduous difficulty, provided that we stick to modest and elegant programming languages, provided that we respect the intrinsec limitations of the human mind and approach the task as Very Humble Programmers. -- E. W. Dijkstra, The humble programmer

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

I think there’s a world market for about 5 computers. -- Thomas J. Watson, Chairman of the Board, IBM, circa 1948

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. ~Anonymous

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter. ~Francis Chan

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter. ~Francis Chan

Successful entrepreneurs are givers and not takers of positive energy. ~Anonymous