Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte. (I have made this letter so long only because I did not have the leisure to make it shorter.) -- Blaise Pascal (Lettres Provinciales)

La haine est une liqueur précieuse, un poison plus cher que celui des Borgia, - car il est fait avec notre sang, notre santé, notre sommeil, et les deux tiers de notre amour! Il faut en être avare! -- Charles Baudelaire, Conseils aux jeunes littérateurs.

Good coders code, great reuse. -- http://www.catonmat.net

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. -- Aristotle.

Chance favors the prepared mind. -- Louis Pasteur

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

When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. –Helen Keller

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. ~Margaret Thatcher

First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end. –Aristotle

Believe you can and you’re halfway there. –Theodore Roosevelt