We really have to get over the idea that some stuff is just worth knowing even if you never do anything with it. Human memories happily erase stuff that has no purpose, so why try to fill up children's heads with such stuff? -- Roger Schank, Engines for Education

Any code of your own that you haven’t looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else. -- Eagleson’s Law

The acts of the mind, wherein it exerts its power over simple ideas, are chiefly these three: 1. Combining several simple ideas into one compound one, and thus all complex ideas are made. 2. The second is bringing two ideas, whether simple or complex, together, and setting them by one another so as to take a view of them at once, without uniting them into one, by which it gets all its ideas of relations. 3. The third is separating them from all other ideas that accompany them in their real existence: this is called abstraction, and thus all its general ideas are made. -- John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690)

An interpreter raises the machine to the level of the user program; a compiler lowers the user program to the level of the machine language. -- SICP

Code is poetry. -- wordpress.org

Des mots simples, quand ils sont bien utilisés, font faire à des gens ordinaires des choses extraordinaires. -- Khaled TANGAO

Good things come to people who wait, but better things come to those who go out and get them. ~Anonymous

Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. –Eleanor Roosevelt

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see. ~Anonymous

There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. –Aristotle