17. Conclusion
Well, maybe I can't get off that easy. Thank you for purchasing and reading this book. I hope you have found it interesting and helpful, and that it finds a permanent home on your bookshelf. May it trigger your interests and pull you in a direction you might not have explored otherwise. I also hope that you respect it enough to recommend it to others who might learn from it. I can honestly say that writing it was something I enjoyed very much. I learned a lot in the process about software development under Mac OS X, as well as about myself as a writer.
Whenever I sign up for a project such as this there are periods of excitement, panic, and just about every emotion in between. When you tell your publisher “500 pages? Sure! No problem!” you forget how hard it was to write 500 pages the first time. You soon remember. However, even during those “Oh My Goodness” times, I wouldn't give up because, for me, in writing a book, the reward is the destination and not the journey. Seeing the book on the shelf and in people's hands—that is why I choose to write in the first place. It's an ego boost, an accomplishment, something that took many months of hard work to put together (even though you can do most of it in your pajamas) and finally, there it is! Any writer not on the New York Times' bestseller list will tell you that it's not about the money.
Having said that; thank you! Goodnight!