To the optimist, the glass is half full. To the pessimist, the glass is half empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be. -- author unknown (quoted in `Robust Systems', Gerald Jay Suseman)

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

Good ideas are out there for anyone with the wit and the will to find them. -- Malcolm Gladwell, Who says big ideas are rare?

Ne te mets pas de limite, la vie se chargera de la mettre a ta place. -- Darryl AMEDON

Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve. -- Alan J. Perlis (Epigrams in programmi ng)

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

If you’re going through hell keep going. ~Winston Churchill

The starting point of all achievement is desire. ~Napolean Hill

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

Dream big and dare to fail. –Norman Vaughan