The best way to learn to live with our limitations is to know them. --E. W. Dijkstra, The humble programmer
Well then. How could you possibly live without automated refactoring tools? How else could you coordinate the caterpillar-like motions of all Java’s identical tiny legs, its thousands of similar parts? I’ll tell you how: Ruby is a butterfly. -- Stevey, Refactoring Trilogy, Part 1.
No art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to excel in it. -- Alberti
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".
If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in. -- Edsger W. Dijkstra
Do you want to sell sugared water all your life or do you want to change the world? -- Steve Jobs, to John Sculley (former Pepsi executive)
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. –Confucius
Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him. –Booker T. Washington
The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same. ~Colin R. Davis
The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. –Ayn Rand