The job of a leader today is not to create followers. It’s to create more leaders. -- Ralph Nader

Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte. (I have made this letter so long only because I did not have the leisure to make it shorter.) -- Blaise Pascal (Lettres Provinciales)

A tail call allows a function to return the result of another function without leaving an entry on the stack. Tail recursion is a specific case of tail calling. -- ASPN : Python Cookbook : Explicit Tail Call

I feel it is everybodies obligation to reach for the best in themselves and use that for the interest of mankind. -- Corneluis (comment on 'Are you going to change the world? (Really?)')

So - what are the most important problems in software engineering? I’d answer “dealing with complexity”. -- Mark Chu-Carroll

The general principle for complexity design is this: Think locally, act locally. -- Richard P. Gabriel & Ron Goldman, Mob Software: The Erotic Life of Code

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. – Albert Einstein

Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless. –Jamie Paolinetti

It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. –Abraham Lincoln

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