Lisp has jokingly been called "the most intelligent way to misuse a computer". I think that description is a great compliment because it transmits the full flavor of liberation: it has assisted a number of our most gifted fellow humans in thinking previously impossible thoughts. -- Edsger Dijkstra, CACM, 15:10

Making All Software Into Tools Reduces Risk. -- smoothspan.com

Omit needless words. -- William Strunk, Jr. (The Elements of Style)

Des mots simples, quand ils sont bien utilisés, font faire à des gens ordinaires des choses extraordinaires. -- Khaled TANGAO

When your enemy is making a very serious mistake, don't be impolite and disturb him. -- Napoleon Bonaparte (allegedly)

When you’ve got the code all ripped apart, it’s like a car that’s all disassembled. You’ve got all the parts tying all over your garage and you have to replace the broken part or the car will never run. It’s not fun until the code gets back to the baseline again. -- Gary Kildall (inventor of CP/M, one of the first OS for the micro).

Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly. ~Proverb

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. –Mark Twain

Eighty percent of success is showing up. –Woody Allen

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