"While I don't claim to be a great programmer, I try to imitate one. An important trait of the great ones is constructive laziness. They know that you get an A not for effort but for results, and that it's almost always easier to start from a good partial solution than from nothing at all."
-- Eric Steven Raymond

"If you have the right attitude, interesting problems will find you."
-- Eric Steven Raymond

"If you never dig deeper, your competence will be stuck at the surface."
-- David Heinemeier Hansson