It is said that the real winner is the one who lives in today but able to see tomorrow. -- Juan Meng, Reviewing "The future of ideas" by Lawrence Lessig

Thus, programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute. -- Alan J. Perlis

There are many ways to avoid success in life, but the most sure-fire just might be procrastination. -- Hara Estroff Marano.

The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise. -- Edsger Dijkstra

Ce n'est que par les relations qu'on entretient entre nos différentes connaissances qu'elles nous restent accessibles. -- Shnuup, sur l'hypertexte (SELFHTML -> Introduction -> Definitions sur l'hypertexte)

Philosophy: the finding of bad reasons for what one believes by instinct. -- Brave New World (paraphrased)

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. –Henry Ford

If you genuinely want something, don’t wait for it — teach yourself to be impatient. ~Gurbaksh Chahal

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement. –W. Clement Stone

Teach thy tongue to say, I do not know, and thous shalt progress. –Maimonides