Always dive down into a problem and get your hands on the deepest issue behind the problem. All other considerations are to dismissed as "engineering details"; they can be sorted out after the basic problem has been solved. -- Chris Crawford

A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure. -- Hugh Kingsmill

Heureux l'étudiant qui comme la Rivière peut suivre son cours sans quitter son lit... -- Sebastien, sur commentcamarche.net

Well, if you talk about programming to a group of programmers who use the same language, they can become almost evangelistic about the language. They form a tight-knit community, hold to certain beliefs, and follow certain rules in their programming. It’s like a church with a programming language for a Bible. -- Gary Kildall (inventor of CP/M, one of the first OS for the micro).

Resume writing is just like dating, or applying for a bank loan, in that nobody wants you if you're desperate. -- Steve Yegge.

A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure. -- Hugh Kingsmill

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. –Maya Angelou

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. ~Pablo Picasso

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

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. –Confucius