Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight. -- Bill Gates

Have you ever noticed that when you sit down to write something, half the ideas that end up in it are ones you thought of while writing it? The same thing happens with software. Working to implement one idea gives you more ideas. -- Paul Graham, The other road ahead.

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

Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. -- Cited by Randy Pausch

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.

It is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead. -- Edsger Dijkstra

Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is. –Vince Lombardi

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing. ~Dale Carnegie

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. –Pablo Picasso

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see. ~Anonymous