Any code of your own that you haven’t looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else. -- Eagleson’s Law

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)

First learn computer science and all the theory. Next develop a programming style. Then forget all that and just hack. -- George Carrette

Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called an engineering discipline. -- Bill Clinton

For complex systems, the compiler and development environment need to be in the same language that its supporting. It's the only way to grow code. -- Alan Kay

All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection. -- Butler Lampson

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. –Stephen Covey

You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame. –Erica Jong

14.Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover. –Mark Twain

Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning. ~Robert Kiyosaki