The world is changing, and I believe that, if I want to stay employed as a programmer, I’m going to have to change with it.
Kent Beck

The world is changing, and I believe that, if I want to stay employed as a programmer, I’m going to have to change with it.
Kent Beck

- [Parliament member] : Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answer come out ?
- [C. Babbage] : I’m not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
Charles Babbage

Il y aurait trois méthodes sûres pour ruiner une affaire qui marche : les femmes, le jeu ou les technocrates… Les femmes, ce serait le plus marrant ; le jeu, le plus rapide ; les technocrates, le plus sûr.
Michel Audiard

L’ignorant affirme, le savant doute, le sage réfléchit.
Aristote

Instead of focusing on results, I believe creative workers should first be focusing on trust.
Jurgen Appelo

If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.
Mario Andretti

Companies in every industry need to assume that a software revolution is coming.
Marc Andreesen

Mieux vaut réaliser son souhait que souhaiter l’avoir fait.
Woody Allen

L’âge n’est rien d’autre que ce que vous en pensez. Vous êtes aussi vieux que vous estimez l’être.
Mohamed Ali

The multiplicity of the design space constantly confuses apprentice designers. Given a software design problem, what’s a good solution to it? Events? Objects? Observers? Callbacks? Virtuals? Templates?… The most important difference between an expert software architect and a beginner is the knowledge of what works and what doesn’t.
Andrei Alexandrescu
