J'ai toujours préféré la folie des passions à la sagesse de l'indifférence. -- Anatole France

I was talking recently to a friend who teaches at MIT. His field is hot now and every year he is inundated by applications from would-be graduate students. "A lot of them seem smart," he said. "What I can't tell is whether they have any kind of taste." -- Paul Graham

If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution. -- Robert Sewell

The direct pursuit of happiness is a recipe for an unhappy life. -- Donald Campbell

Thus, programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute. -- Alan J. Perlis

Do you want to sell sugared water all your life or do you want to change the world? -- Steve Jobs, to John Sculley (former Pepsi executive)

It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings. –Ann Landers

We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained. –Marie Curie

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. –Latin Proverb

What’s the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable. ~Anonymous