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.

In order to understand what another person is saying, you must assume that it is true and try to find out what it could be true of. -- George Miller

It's no trick for talented people to be interesting, but it's a gift to be interested. We want an organization filled with interested people. -- Randy S. Nelson (dean of Pixar University)

- If you give him a penny for his thoughts, you'd get change. - Not the sharpest knife in the drawer. - A prime candidate for natural deselection. -- [Ideas for flamewars]

State is the root of all evil. In particular functions with side effects should be avoided. -- OO Sucks (bluetail.com)

The most damaging phrase in the language is, It's always been done that way. -- Rear Admiral Grace Hopper

I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong. –Benjamin Franklin

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. ~Thomas A. Edison

Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. ~Winston Churchill

Your problem isn’t the problem. Your reaction is the problem. ~Anonymous