The acts of the mind, wherein it exerts its power over simple ideas, are chiefly these three: 1. Combining several simple ideas into one compound one, and thus all complex ideas are made. 2. The second is bringing two ideas, whether simple or complex, together, and setting them by one another so as to take a view of them at once, without uniting them into one, by which it gets all its ideas of relations. 3. The third is separating them from all other ideas that accompany them in their real existence: this is called abstraction, and thus all its general ideas are made. -- John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690)

Simplicity means the achievement of maximum effect with minimum means. -- Dr. Koichi Kawana

Before software can be reusable it first has to be usable. -- Ralph Johnson

The minute you put the blame on someone else you’ve switch things from being a problem you can control to a problem outside of your control. -- engtech (internetducttape.com)

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. -- Benjamin Franklin

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

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. –Anais Nin

15.Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. –Charles Swindoll

Knowledge is being aware of what you can do. Wisdom is knowing when not to do it. ~Anonymous

When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid. ~Audre Lorde