Je ne vous impose aucune contrainte, aucune limite. Surprenez-moi, étonnez-moi, défiez-moi, défiez-vous vous-même. Vous avez le choix: vous pouvez rester dans l'ombre ou en sortir en étant parmis les trop rares exceptions à avoir réussi. L'heure est venue d'aller bien au delà de votre potentiel. L'heure est venue maintenant de descendre vraiment en vous. L'heure est venue de démontrer pourquoi vous êtes l'élite, les quelques élus, les rares lueurs qui offrent à cette compagnie son caractère exceptionnel, sa luminescence. -- Le PDG de NURV, dans "Anti-trust".

Remember that you are humans in the first place and only after that programmers. -- Alexandru Vancea

A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure. -- Hugh Kingsmill

I think it is wise, and only honest, to warn you that my goal is immodest. It is not my purpose to "transfer knowledge" to you that, subsequently, you can forget again. My purpose is no less than to effectuate in each of you a noticeable, irreversable change. I want you to gain, for the rest of your lives, the insight that beautiful proofs are not "found" by trial anf error but are the result of a consciously applied design discipline. I want you to raise your quality standards. I mean, if 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself "Dijkstra would not have liked this", well, that would be enough immortality for me. -- E. W. Dijkstra

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God. -- Alan J. Perlis (Epigrams in programming)

State is the root of all evil. In particular functions with side effects should be avoided. -- OO Sucks (bluetail.com)

It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings. –Ann Landers

You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals. ~Booker T. Washington

Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. ~Lolly Daskal

Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly. ~Proverb