Within a computer natural language is unnatural. -- Alan J. Perlis (Epigrams in programming)

Omit needless words. -- William Strunk, Jr. (The Elements of Style)

La haine est une liqueur précieuse, un poison plus cher que celui des Borgia, - car il est fait avec notre sang, notre santé, notre sommeil, et les deux tiers de notre amour! Il faut en être avare! -- Charles Baudelaire, Conseils aux jeunes littérateurs.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. -- Friedrich Nietzsche

The reason to do animation is caricature. Good caricature picks out the essense of the statement and removes everything else. It's not simply about reproducing reality; It's about bumping it up. -- Brad Bird, writer and director, The Incredibles

Training research shows that if you get speed now you can get quality later. But if you don't get speed you will never get quality in the long run. -- Philip Greenspun

Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly. ~Proverb

Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right. –Henry Ford

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. ~David Brinkley

Education costs money. But then so does ignorance. –Sir Claus Moser