The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. -- Hans Hofmann

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

Normality is the route to nowhere. -- Ridderstrale & Nordstorm, Funky Business

Programmers are in a race with the Universe to create bigger and better idiot-proof programs, while the Universe is trying to create bigger and better idiots. So far the Universe is winning. -- Rich Cook

An interpreter raises the machine to the level of the user program; a compiler lowers the user program to the level of the machine language. -- SICP

Lisp programmers know the value of everything but the cost of nothing. -- Alan J. Perlis

14.Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover. –Mark Twain

You may only succeed if you desire succeeding; you may only fail if you do not mind failing. ~Philippos

It is never too late to be what you might have been. –George Eliot

We become what we think about most of the time, and that’s the strangest secret. ~Earl Nightingale