Je ne vous impose aucune contrainte, aucune limite. Surprenez-moi, étonnez-moi, défiez-moi, défiez-vous vous-même. Vous avez le choix: vous pouvez rester dans l'ombre ou en sortir en étant parmis les trop rares exceptions à avoir réussi. L'heure est venue d'aller bien au delà de votre potentiel. L'heure est venue maintenant de descendre vraiment en vous. L'heure est venue de démontrer pourquoi vous êtes l'élite, les quelques élus, les rares lueurs qui offrent à cette compagnie son caractère exceptionnel, sa luminescence. -- Le PDG de NURV, dans "Anti-trust".
The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris. -- Larry Wall (Programming Perl)
Saying that Java is nice because it works on all OSes is like saying that anal sex is nice because it works on all genders. -- Alanna
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. -- Thomas Edison
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. -- Alfred North Whitehead (Introduction to Mathematics)
The best programmers are not marginally better than merely good ones. They are an order-of-magnitude better, measured by whatever standard: conceptual creativity, speed, ingenuity of design, or problem-solving ability. -- Randall E. Stross
Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. –Joshua J. Marine
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. –Pablo Picasso
The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus. ~Bruce Lee
If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money. –Abigail Van Buren