L’art qui satisfait le besoin le plus impérieux sera toujours le plus honoré. -- Charles Baudelaire, Conseils aux jeunes littérateurs.

The lesson of the story might appear to be that self-interested and ambitious people in power are often the cause of wastefulness in developing countries. But self-interested and ambitious people are in positions of power, great and small, all over the world. In many places, they are restrained by the law, the press, and democratic opposition. Cameroon's tragedy is that there is nothing to hold self-interest in check. -- Tim Harford

C++ is history repeated as tragedy. Java is history repeated as farce. -- Scott McKay

The best way to learn to live with our limitations is to know them. --E. W. Dijkstra, The humble programmer

If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough. -- Alan Kay

Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. -- Thomas Edison

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. –Maya Angelou

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success. ~Bruce Feirstein

There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. –Aristotle

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. ~Steve Jobs