The wonderful and frustrating thing about understanding yourself is that nobody can do it for you. -- BetterExplained.com

A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer. -- Bill Gates

New eyes have X-ray vision. [someone that hasn't written it is more likely to spot the bug. "someone" can be you after a break] -- William S. Annis

A hacker on a roll may be able to produce–in a period of a few months–something that a small development group (say, 7-8 people) would have a hard time getting together over a year. IBM used to report that certain programmers might be as much as 100 times as productive as other workers, or more. -- Peter Seebach

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

One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that–lacking zero–they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs. -- Robert Firth

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. –Steve Jobs

Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning. ~Robert Kiyosaki

Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them. ~Vaibhav Shah

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. ~Steve Jobs