Software Is Like Cathedrals: First, We Build Them — Then We Pray

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover the prisoner was you

Your greatest gift lies next to your deepest wound

“If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.” — Stephen R. Covey

Happiness is the fuel towards your goals, not the reward for achieving them. 

Dostoyevsky once said:

The thought once occurred to me that if one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment, one at which the most fearsome murderer would tremble, shrinking from it in advance, all one would have to do would be to make him do work that was completely and utterly devoid of usefulness and meaning.

Don’t wait for the perfect moment. Take the moment and make it perfect.

As the body moves your mind grooves.

When in doubt, zoom out!

“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”

“If you’re not having fun, you’re doing something wrong.” — Groucho Marx

The Goldilocks Rule states that humans experience peak motivation when working on tasks that are right on the edge of their current abilities. Not too hard. Not too easy. Just right.

The definition of insanity is repeating the same action over and over again and expecting different results.

For many of us, music fills the void of the words we are too afraid to say. 

“knowing tomato is a fruit is being knowledgeable, not putting it on the fruit salad is wisdom”

Words are very unnecessary, they can only do harm...

hedgehog's dilemma

Write the opposite of a suicide note — a note about why I decided to keep living today.

Scars are tattoos with better stories

Gratitude is when you take a moment to pause and appreciate the breathtaking view.

A man who knows how to be alone, can conquer the world

As for how to write bug-free code? Just don’t call them bugs.

“Why was six afraid? Because seven ‘eight’ nine?”

“The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. “— Saint Augustine

Ernest Hemingway once said, “Write drunk; edit sober”.

“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.” -Eleanor Roosevelt

Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. ― Robert Frost

It makes no difference if it's alcohol,  marijuana, nicotine, caffeine, cocaine, or sugar. They're all drugs. In effect you're damned if you do and damned if you don't. It's all about moderation.

When you say “yes” to others, make sure you are not saying “no” to yourself.

An idea becomes pornographic when the idea of doing it is weighted more heavily than actually accomplishing what the goal or value sets out to accomplish.