Jason Walker

“There is a critical difference (Ryan observes) between saying, “I’m giving you this reward because I recognize the value of your work”, and “You’re getting this reward because you’ve lived up to my standards.” The first does not demotivate; the second does.”
― Eric S. Raymond, The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary

“Magic beans, baby. Magic beans.”
― Barack Obama, A Promised Land

“Alas for us, our dreams came true.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Shepherd's Crown

“In fact he was quite pleased with it: one of the few female corpses he had seen with that curious quasicalcification of the palmar aponeuroses – fresh, too – but since it was only the hands that interested him at the moment, would either of his colleagues choose to go snacks?”
― Patrick O'Brian, Desolation Island