Ignacio Alonso

“Go back?" he thought. "No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!" So up he got, and trotted along with his little sword held in front of him and one hand feeling the wall, and his heart all of a patter and a pitter.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

“I believe that our epiphanies or intuitive insights often reflect who we are, or what we are capable of doing, in unexpected ways.”
― Gary Erickson, Raising the Bar: Integrity and Passion in Life and Business: The Story of Clif Bar Inc.

“Your job is one of synthesis; you must combine an overall understanding of your application’s requirements with knowledge of the costs and benefits of design alternatives and then devise an arrangement of code that is cost effective in the present and will continue to be so in the future.”
― Sandi Metz, Practical Object-Oriented Design: An Agile Primer Using Ruby

“In a small application, poor design is survivable. Even if everything is connected to everything else, if you can hold it all in your head at once, you can still improve the application. The problem with poorly designed small applications is that if they are successful, they grow up to be poorly designed big applications.”
― Sandi Metz, Practical Object-Oriented Design: An Agile Primer Using Ruby