If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in. -- Edsger W. Dijkstra

A witty saying proves nothing -- Voltaire

I was talking recently to a friend who teaches at MIT. His field is hot now and every year he is inundated by applications from would-be graduate students. "A lot of them seem smart," he said. "What I can't tell is whether they have any kind of taste." -- Paul Graham

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]

Je crois au flooding. -- Karim BAINA (en parlant du dailogue avec les administrations)

Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed. -- George Burns

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. ~Swami Vivekananda

You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them. ~Michael Jordan

The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it. –Chinese Proverb

Eighty percent of success is showing up. –Woody Allen