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

C++ is like teenage sex: Everybody is talking about it all the time, only few are really doing it. -- unknown

Abstraction is a form of data compression: absolutely necessary, because human short-term memory is so small, but the critically important aspect of abstraction is the algorithm that gets you from the name back to the "uncompressed" details. -- Bruce Wilder (blog post comment)

A person won't retain proficiency at a task unless he or she has at one time learned to perform that task very rapidly. Learning research demonstrates that the skills of people who become accurate but not fast deteriorate much sooner than the skills of people who become both accurate and fast. -- Philip Greenspun

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

Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. -- Martin Golding

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. –Lao Tzu

If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you! ~T. Harv Eker

The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don’t define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them. ~Denis Watiley

The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones that do. ~Anonymous