Je crois au flooding. -- Karim BAINA (en parlant du dailogue avec les administrations)

If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as lines produced but as lines spent. -- Edsger Dijkstra

Good programmers use their brains, but good guidelines save us having to think out every case. -- Francis Glassborow

What is truth? -- Pontius Pilate

What do Americans look for in a car? I've heard many answers when I've asked this question. The answers include excellent safety ratings, great gas mileage, handling, and cornering ability, among others. I don't believe any of these. That's because the first principle of the Culture Code is that the only effective way to understand what people truly mean is to ignore what they say. This is not to suggest that people intentionally lie or misrepresent themselves. What it means is that, when asked direct questions about their interests and preferences, people tend to give answers they believe the questioner wants to hear. Again, this is not because they intend to mislead. It is because people respond to these questions with their cortexes, the parts of their brains that control intelligence rather than emotion or instinct. They ponder a question, they process a question, and when they deliver an answer, it is the product of deliberation. They believe they are telling the truth. A lie detector would confirm this. In most cases, however, they aren't saying what they mean. -- The culture code.

While I’ve always appreciated beautiful code, I share Jonathan’s concern about studying it too much. I think studying beauty in music and painting has led us to modern classical music and painting that the majority of us just don’t get. Beauty can be seen when it emerges, but isn’t something to strive for in isolation of a larger context. In the software world, the larger context would be the utility of the software to the end user. -- [A comment on a blog]

When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. –Helen Keller

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. ~Herman Melville

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself. ~Mark Caine

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