Any code of your own that you haven’t looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else. -- Eagleson’s Law

La haine est une liqueur précieuse, un poison plus cher que celui des Borgia, - car il est fait avec notre sang, notre santé, notre sommeil, et les deux tiers de notre amour! Il faut en être avare! -- Charles Baudelaire, Conseils aux jeunes littérateurs.

We remember what we learn when we care about performing better and when we believe that what we have been asked to do is representative of reality. -- Roger Schank, Engines for Education

Good artists copy. Great artists steal. -- Pablo Picasso

The only problems we can really solve in a satisfactory manner are those that finally admit a nicely factored solution. -- E. W. Dijkstra, The humble programmer

Premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming. -- Donald Knuth

First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end. –Aristotle

You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them. ~Michael Jordan

Life is about making an impact, not making an income. --Kevin Kruse

Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. ~John R. Wooden