I'm always happy to trade performance for readability as long as the former isn't already scarce. -- Crayz (Commentor on blog.raganwald.com)

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

We tend to seek easy, single-factor explanations of success. For most important things, though, success actually requires avoiding many separate causes of failure. -- Jared Diamond

The programmer must seek both perfection of part and adequacy of collection. -- Alan J. Perlis

What I didn't understand was that the value of some new acquisition wasn't the difference between its retail price and what I paid for it. It was the value I derived from it. Stuff is an extremely illiquid asset. Unless you have some plan for selling that valuable thing you got so cheaply, what difference does it make what it's "worth?" The only way you're ever going to extract any value from it is to use it. And if you don't have any immediate use for it, you probably never will. -- Paul Graham

Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex, intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple, stupid behavior. -- Dee Hock, Birth of the Chaordic Age

I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing. ~Martha Stewart

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. ~Anonymous

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. –Lao Tzu

Believe you can and you’re halfway there. –Theodore Roosevelt