Ninnunännu

MOSS: I don’t mind telling you, Roy, that sometimes the people upstairs cheese me off to such an extent that if I were the type to use bad language, I’d be employing it bitterly and repeatedly.

Yukihiro Matsumoto: I believe consistency and orthogonality are tools of design, not the primary goal in design.

when you try to climb a mountain to prove how big you are, you almost never make it

-ZAMM

"The student was finally and completely trapped into making quality judgments for himself"

-Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance


see also:
http://pivotallabs.com/users/steve/blog/articles/617-phaedrus-code