Hence my urgent advice to all of you to reject the morals of the bestseller society and to find, to start with, your reward in your own fun. This is quite feasible, for the challenge of simplification is so fascinating that, if we do our job properly, we shall have the greatest fun in the world. -- E. W. Dijkstra, On the nature of computing science.
Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight. -- Bill Gates
In terms of energy, it's better to make a wrong choice than none at all. -- George Leonard, Mastery.
Je ne vous impose aucune contrainte, aucune limite. Surprenez-moi, étonnez-moi, défiez-moi, défiez-vous vous-même. Vous avez le choix: vous pouvez rester dans l'ombre ou en sortir en étant parmis les trop rares exceptions à avoir réussi. L'heure est venue d'aller bien au delà de votre potentiel. L'heure est venue maintenant de descendre vraiment en vous. L'heure est venue de démontrer pourquoi vous êtes l'élite, les quelques élus, les rares lueurs qui offrent à cette compagnie son caractère exceptionnel, sa luminescence. -- Le PDG de NURV, dans "Anti-trust".
All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection. -- Butler Lampson
There really is no learning without doing. -- Roger Schank, Engines for Education
Knowledge is being aware of what you can do. Wisdom is knowing when not to do it. ~Anonymous
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. ~Pablo Picasso
Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. –Albert Einstein