So the mere constraint of staying in regular contact with us will push you to make things happen, because otherwise you'll be embarrassed to tell us that you haven't done anything new since the last time we talked. -- Paul Graham (a talk at Y Combinator, for startup creators).

If there is a will, there is a way. -- unknown

There really is no learning without doing. -- Roger Schank, Engines for Education

The acts of the mind, wherein it exerts its power over simple ideas, are chiefly these three: 1. Combining several simple ideas into one compound one, and thus all complex ideas are made. 2. The second is bringing two ideas, whether simple or complex, together, and setting them by one another so as to take a view of them at once, without uniting them into one, by which it gets all its ideas of relations. 3. The third is separating them from all other ideas that accompany them in their real existence: this is called abstraction, and thus all its general ideas are made. -- John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690)

You think you know when you learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program. -- Alan J. Perlis (Epigrams in programming)

Ne te mets pas de limite, la vie se chargera de la mettre a ta place. -- Darryl AMEDON

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. –Henry David Thoreau

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others. ~Bill Gates

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. –Bill Cosby

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. –Chinese Proverb