Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. -- Martin Golding

L’art qui satisfait le besoin le plus impérieux sera toujours le plus honoré. -- Charles Baudelaire, Conseils aux jeunes littérateurs.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. -- Blaise Pascal (attributed)

It is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead. -- Edsger Dijkstra

Measure everything you can about the product, and you'll start seeing patterns. -- Max Levchin, PayPal founder, Talk at StartupSchool2007

Premature abstraction is an equally grevious sin as premature optimization. -- Keith Devens

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

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. –Les Brown

Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is. –Vince Lombardi

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time. ~George Bernard Shaw