Heureux l'étudiant qui comme la Rivière peut suivre son cours sans quitter son lit... -- Sebastien, sur commentcamarche.net

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

Chance favors the prepared mind. -- Louis Pasteur

State is the root of all evil. In particular functions with side effects should be avoided. -- OO Sucks (bluetail.com)

And if you go too far up, abstraction-wise, you run out of oxygen. Sometimes smart thinkers just don't know when to stop, and they create these absurd, all-encompassing, high-level pictures of the universe that are all good and fine, but don't actually mean anything at all. -- Joel Spolsky

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. -- Goethe

I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. ~Diane Ackerman

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. –Steve Jobs

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. ~Pablo Picasso

You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction. ~George Lorimer