No problem should ever have to be solved twice. -- Eric S. Raymond, How to become a hacker

Never do the impossible. People will expect you to do it forever after. -- pigsandfishes.com

Photography is painting with light. -- Eric Hamilton

Je ne vous impose aucune contrainte, aucune limite. Surprenez-moi, étonnez-moi, défiez-moi, défiez-vous vous-même. Vous avez le choix: vous pouvez rester dans l'ombre ou en sortir en étant parmis les trop rares exceptions à avoir réussi. L'heure est venue d'aller bien au delà de votre potentiel. L'heure est venue maintenant de descendre vraiment en vous. L'heure est venue de démontrer pourquoi vous êtes l'élite, les quelques élus, les rares lueurs qui offrent à cette compagnie son caractère exceptionnel, sa luminescence. -- Le PDG de NURV, dans "Anti-trust".

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies, The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. -- C.S. Lewis

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it's a duck. -- Official definition of "duck typing"

If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on. –Sheryl Sandberg

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. –Chinese Proverb

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter. ~Francis Chan

Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. ~Winston Churchill