No problem should ever have to be solved twice. -- Eric S. Raymond, How to become a hacker

A guideline in the process of stepwise refinement should be the principle to decompose decisions as much as possible, to untangle aspects which are only seemingly interdependent, and to defer those decisions which concern details of representation as long as possible. -- Niklaus Wirth

Quality of the people is better than the quality of the business idea. Crappy people can screw up the best idea in the world. -- Hadi Partovi & Ali Partovi (iLike.com), Talk at StartupSchool2007

A designer knows he has arrived at perfection not when there is no longuer anything to add, but when there is no longuer anything to take away. -- Antoine de St Exupery.

A non negative binary integer value x is a power of 2 iff (x & (x-1)) is 0 using 2's complement arithmetic. -- [fact]

J'ai toujours préféré la folie des passions à la sagesse de l'indifférence. -- Anatole France

The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it. –Chinese Proverb

Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. –Eleanor Roosevelt

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. –Michael Jordan

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. –Anais Nin