La connaissance d'un défaut ne l'enlève pas, elle nous torture jusqu'à sa correction. -- Daniel Lovewin (Guillaume Kpotufe)

One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that–lacking zero–they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs. -- Robert Firth

The proof is by reductio ad absurdum, and reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician’s finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess gambit: a chess player may offer the sacrifice of a pawn or even a piece, but a mathematician offers the game. -- G. H. Hardy

Simple things should be simple. Complex things should be possible. -- Alan Kay

I think the root of your mistake is saying that macros don't scale to larger groups. The real truth is that macros don't scale to stupider groups. -- Paul Graham, on the Lightweight Languages mailing list.

A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer. -- Bill Gates

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter. ~Francis Chan

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. –Mark Twain

Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting. ~Anonymous

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time. ~George Bernard Shaw