The mark of a mature programmer is willingness to throw out code you spent time on when you realize it's pointless. 一个成熟程序员的标志是，当你意识到代码毫无意义时，愿意扔掉你花了很多时间的代码。
DHH:
If you can run your application in a single process, SQLite is the best possible database engine you can use.
Nicole Tietz:
As a principal engineer, I view it as my role to keep us off the bleeding edge as much as possible. That way, when we really do need to innovate, we have the capacity to do so. And when we don't need to, we can go really freaking fast. 作为一名首席工程师，我认为这是我的职责，尽可能让我们远离流血的边缘。这样，当我们真的需要创新时，我们就有能力这样做。而当我们不需要创新的时候，我们可以走得非常快。
狄更斯-远大前程 Great Expectations:
That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. BUt, it is the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it, and think how different its course would have been. Pause, you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers... that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day. 那一天对我来说是难忘的一天，因为它给我带来了巨大的改变。想象一下，有一天被剔除，想想它的进程会有多不同。停下来，你们这些读到这篇文章的人，想想那长长的铁链或金链，荆棘或花朵。。。如果不是在一个值得纪念的日子里形成了第一个环节，这永远不会束缚你。
This paper is on "Tetris" game design and development.
Paul Bowles:
Whenever he was en route from one place to another, he was able to look at his life with a little more objectivity than usual. It was often on trips that he thought most clearly, and made the decisions that he could not reach when he was stationary. 保罗·鲍尔斯：每当他从一个地方到另一个地方的路上，他都能比平时更加客观地看待自己的生活。经常是在旅行中，他想得最清楚，并做出了他静止时无法做出的决定。
Buddha:
It is better to travel well than to arrive. 旅行好总比到达好。
Rich Ridgeway:
The best journeys in life are those that answer questions you never thought to ask. 人生中最好的旅程是那些能回答你从未想过要问的问题的旅程。
David Wojnarowicz:
Destination means death to me. If I could figure out a way to remain forever in transition, in the disconnected and unfamiliar, I could remain in a state of perpetual freedom. 目的地对我来说意味着死亡。如果我能找到一种方法，让我永远处于过渡期，处于脱节和陌生的状态，我就能永远保持自由。
Norton Juster: The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what’s in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that.
Le Guin, Ursula: It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end.
Lao Tzu:
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
Danny Kaye: To travel is to take a journey into yourself.
T. S. Eliot: The journey not the arrival matters.
Chinese Proverb: On a journey of a hundred miles, ninety is but half way.
Greg Andersen: Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.
Jack Kerouac: Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.
William Hazlitt: The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.
Tim Cahill: A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.
Henry Ward Beecher: We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
Marcel Proust: We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
Rainer Maria Rilke: The only journey is the one within.
Steinbeck, John: A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
George Whitefield: Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.
William Buckley Jr: If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.