I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind. -- Alan Kay

Ne te mets pas de limite, la vie se chargera de la mettre a ta place. -- Darryl AMEDON

Wear your best for your execution and stand dignified. Your last recourse against randomness is how you act — if you can’t control outcomes, you can control the elegance of your behaviour. You will always have the last word. -- Nassim Taleb

Being a programmer is the same way. The only way to be a good programmer is to write code. When you realize you haven't been writing much code lately, and it seems like all you do is brag about code you wrote in the past, and people start looking at you funny while you're shooting your mouth off, realize it's because they know. They might not even know they know, but they know. So, yes, doing what you love brings success, and by all means, throw yourself a nice big party, buy yourself a nice car, soak up the adulation of an adoring crowd. Then shut the fuck up and get back to work. -- Sincerity Theory

The problem is that small examples fail to convince, and large examples are too big to follow. -- Steve Yegge.

But what is it good for? -- Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, commenting on the microchip, 1968

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. –Pablo Picasso

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. –Arthur Ashe

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away. ~Anonymous

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. –Bill Cosby