Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. -- Blaise Pascal (attributed)

While I’ve always appreciated beautiful code, I share Jonathan’s concern about studying it too much. I think studying beauty in music and painting has led us to modern classical music and painting that the majority of us just don’t get. Beauty can be seen when it emerges, but isn’t something to strive for in isolation of a larger context. In the software world, the larger context would be the utility of the software to the end user. -- [A comment on a blog]

C and Lisp stand at opposite ends of the spectrum; they're each great at what the other one sucks at. -- Steve Yegge, Tour de Babel.

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

I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind. -- Alan Kay

What Paul does, and does very well, is to take ideas and concepts that are beautiful in the abstract, and brings them down to a real world level. That's a rare talent to find in writing these days. -- Jeff "hemos" Bates, Director, OSDN; Co-evolver, Slashdot

You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. –Wayne Gretzky

15.Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. –Charles Swindoll

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. –Ralph Waldo Emerson

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life. –John Lennon