:nunmap can also be used outside of a monastery. -- Vim user manual

1 - Creativity and innovation always build on the past. 2 - The past always tries to control the creativity that builds on it. 3 - Free societies enable the future by limiting the past. 4 - Ours is less and less a free society. -- Lawrence Lessig, Free Culture.

I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind. -- Alan Kay

C and Lisp stand at opposite ends of the spectrum; they're each great at what the other one sucks at. -- Steve Yegge, Tour de Babel.

Ce n’est que par les beaux sentiments qu’on parvient à la fortune ! -- Charles Baudelaire, Conseils aux jeunes littérateurs.

The president was visiting NASA headquarters and stopped to talk to a man who was holding a mop. “And what do you do?” he asked. The man, a janitor, replied, “I’m helping to put a man on the moon, sir.” -- The little book of leadership

If you’re going through hell keep going. ~Winston Churchill

Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. ~Anonymous

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough. ~Albert Einstein

When you stop chasing the wrong things you give the right things a chance to catch you. ~Lolly Daskal