This page serves as a collection of my favorite quotes.
Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.
— Laurence J. Peter
Il semble que la perfection soit atteinte non quand il n'y a plus rien à ajouter, mais quand il n'y a plus rien à retrancher.1)
— Antoine de Saint Exupéry
My point today is that, if we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as “lines produced” but as “lines spent”: the current conventional wisdom is so foolish as to book that count on the wrong side of the ledger.
— Edsger W. Dijkstra
I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.
— Blaise Pascal
I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone.
— Bjarne Stroustrup
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
— Bertrand Russell
“The Barber's Speech”.2)
— Charlie Chaplin
I have found that most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
— Abraham Lincoln
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
— United States Declaration of Independence3)
As therefore the highest perfection of intellectual nature lies in a careful and constant pursuit of true and solid happiness; so the care of ourselves, that we mistake not imaginary for real happiness, is the necessary foundation of our liberty.
— John Locke4)