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La tactique, c'est ce que vous faites quand il y a quelque chose à
faire; la stratégie, c'est ce que vous faites quand il n'y a rien à
faire.
-- Xavier Tartacover

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
-- Thomas Jefferson

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

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

I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have
C++ in mind.
-- Alan Kay

The only thing a man should ever be 100% convinced of is his own
ignorance.
-- DJ MacLean

Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a
violent psychopath who knows where you live.
-- Martin Golding

You think you know when you learn, are more sure when you can write,
even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
-- Alan J. Perlis (Epigrams in programming)

A no uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a yes merely
uttered to please or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

Students should be evaluated on how well they can achieve the goals they
strived to achieve within a realistic context. Students need to learn to
do things, not know things.
-- Roger Schank, Engines for Education

Functional programming is to algorithms as the ubiquitous little black
dress is to women's fashion.
-- Mark Tarver (of "The bipolar Lisp programmer" fame)

Workers of the world, the chains that bind you are not held in place by
a ruling class, a "superior" race, by society, the state, or a leader.
They are held in place by none other than yourself. Those who seek to
exploit are not themselves free, for they place no value in freedom. Who
is it that really employs you and commands you to pick up your daily
load? And who is it that you allow to pass judgment on the adequacy of
your toil? Who have you empowered to dangle the carrot before you and
threaten with disapproval? Who, when you wake each morning, sends you
off to what you call your work?
Is there an "I want to" behind all your "I have to," or have you been so
long forgotten to yourself that "I want" exists only as an idea in your
head? If you have disconnected from your soul's desire and are drowning
in an ocean of "have to," then rise up and overthrow your master. Begin
the journey toward emancipation. Work only in such a way that you are
truly self-employed.
-- Tim Gallwey, The inner game of work

:nunmap can also be used outside of a monastery.
-- Vim user manual

The direct pursuit of happiness is a recipe for an unhappy life.
-- Donald Campbell

Side projects are less masturbatory than reading RSS, often more
useful than MobileMe, more educational than the comments on Reddit,
and usually more fun than listening to keynotes.
-- Chris Wanstrath

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
-- Benjamin Franklin

In terms of energy, it's better to make a wrong choice than none at all.
-- George Leonard, Mastery.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from
religious conviction.
-- Blaise Pascal (attributed)

We remember what we learn when we care about performing better and when
we believe that what we have been asked to do is representative of
reality.
-- Roger Schank, Engines for Education

Actually, the essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for
novelty. Satisfaction lies in mindful repetition, the discovery of endless
richness in subtle variations on familiar themes.
-- George Leonard, Mastery.

I was talking recently to a friend who teaches at MIT. His field is hot
now and every year he is inundated by applications from would-be
graduate students. "A lot of them seem smart," he said. "What I can't
tell is whether they have any kind of taste."
-- Paul Graham

Ils ne sont pas forts parce qu'ils sont forts. Ils sont forts parce que
nous sommes faibles.
-- Ragala Khalid

Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc,
informally specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common
Lisp.
-- Philip Greenspun (Greenspun's Tenth Rule)

It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that
have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are
mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
-- Edsger Dijkstra

Work as intensely as you play and play as intensely as you work.
-- Eric S. Raymond, How To Be A Hacker

It(mastering)’s knowing what you are doing.
-- Joesgoals.com

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

We remember what we learn when we care about performing better and when
we believe that what we have been asked to do is representative of
reality.
-- Roger Schank, Engines for Education

The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should therefore be
regarded as a criminal offense.
-- E.W. Dijkstra

Good work is no done by ‘humble’ men.
-- H. Hardy, A mathematician's apology.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
-- Mark Twain

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

If there is a will, there is a way.
-- unknown

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

Be the change you want to see in the world.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

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

You can’t get to version 500 if you don’t start with a version 1.
-- BetterExplained.com

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