President of Timor-Leste. He won the Nobel peace prize while in exile during Indonesian rule. He described ASEAN membership, achieved after 14 years of deliberation, as "the achievement of a lifelong goal". Getting into ASEAN, he said, "is as hard as getting into heaven."
"In the face of entropy and nothingness, you kind of have to pretend it's not there if you want to keep writing good code." -- Karl Lehenbauer