I guess, when you're drunk, every woman looks beautiful and every language looks (like) a Lisp :) -- Lament, #[email protected]

- Gbi de fer - Howa! - On va en France - Non, je vais pas! - Pourquoi? - Parce ki y a pas agouti là-bas! -- Gbi de fer

A guideline in the process of stepwise refinement should be the principle to decompose decisions as much as possible, to untangle aspects which are only seemingly interdependent, and to defer those decisions which concern details of representation as long as possible. -- Niklaus Wirth

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

The best is the enemy of the good. -- Voltaire

Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called an engineering discipline. -- Bill Clinton

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. –Pablo Picasso

A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them. ~Henry Kravis

We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained. –Marie Curie

People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy. ~Tony Robbins