The president was visiting NASA headquarters and stopped to talk to a man who was holding a mop. “And what do you do?” he asked. The man, a janitor, replied, “I’m helping to put a man on the moon, sir.” -- The little book of leadership

Code is poetry. -- wordpress.org

Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. -- Martin Golding

All non-trivial abstractions, to some degree, are leaky. -- Joel Spolsky (The Law of Leaky Abstractions)

A CS professor once explained recursion as follows: A child couldn't sleep, so her mother told her a story about a little frog, who couldn't sleep, so the frog's mother told her a story about a little bear, who couldn't sleep, so the bear's mother told her a story about a little weasel... who fell asleep. ...and the little bear fell asleep; ...and the little frog fell asleep; ...and the child fell asleep. -- everything2.com

Ce n'est que par les relations qu'on entretient entre nos différentes connaissances qu'elles nous restent accessibles. -- Shnuup, sur l'hypertexte (SELFHTML -> Introduction -> Definitions sur l'hypertexte)

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. ~Vidal Sassoon

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. –Latin Proverb

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. –Albert Einstein

I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse. –Florence Nightingale