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]

Do not accept anything because it comes from the mouth of a respected person. -- Buddha

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

The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit. -- Anonymous

Thus, programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute. -- Alan J. Perlis

Programming is the art of figuring out what you want so precisely that even a machine can do it. -- Some guy who isn't famous

The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don’t define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them. ~Denis Watiley

It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. –Abraham Lincoln

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. –Steve Jobs

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. –Leonardo da Vinci