i copy down the sentences i keep needing again — some from people who get hit for a living, some from people who ship software for one. i have not found the difference yet.
here are some inspirational quotes
pain is inevitable. suffering is optional.
talk is cheap. show me the code.
a winner has lost more than a loser ever will.
black belt is just a white belt who refused to give up.
the impediment to action advances action. what stands in the way becomes the way.
simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
premature optimization is the root of all evil.
i fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but i fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.
programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.
perfection is attained not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
one of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code.
you may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.
the most damaging phrase in the language is: we've always done it this way.
he who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.
there are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.
walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy — if both are frozen.
any fool can write code that a computer can understand. good programmers write code that humans can understand.
profanity is the one language all programmers know best.
make it work, make it right, make it fast.