If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as lines produced but as lines spent. -- Edsger Dijkstra

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. -- Benjamin Franklin

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

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it's a duck. -- Official definition of "duck typing"

The acts of the mind, wherein it exerts its power over simple ideas, are chiefly these three: 1. Combining several simple ideas into one compound one, and thus all complex ideas are made. 2. The second is bringing two ideas, whether simple or complex, together, and setting them by one another so as to take a view of them at once, without uniting them into one, by which it gets all its ideas of relations. 3. The third is separating them from all other ideas that accompany them in their real existence: this is called abstraction, and thus all its general ideas are made. -- John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690)

The best people and organizations have the attitude of wisdom: The courage to act on what they know right now and the humility to change course when they find better evidence. The quest for management magic and breakthrough ideas is overrated; being a master of the obvious is underrated. Jim Maloney is right: Work is an overrated activity -- Bob Sutton

A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them. ~Henry Kravis

If you do what you always did, you will get what you always got. ~Anonymous

All progress takes place outside the comfort zone. ~Michael John Bobak

You can’t fall if you don’t climb. But there’s no joy in living your whole life on the ground. –Unknown