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

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

It’s a problem if the design doesn’t let you add features at a later date. If you have to redo a program, the hours you spend can cause you to lose your competitive edge. A flexible program demonstrates the difference between a good designer and someone who is just getting a piece of code out. -- Gary Kildall (inventor of CP/M, one of the first OS for the micro).

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. -- Goethe

Let me try to get this straight: Lisp is a language for describing algorithms. This was JohnMcCarthy's original purpose, anyway: to build something more convenient than a Turing machine. Lisp is not about file, socket or GUI programming - Lisp is about expressive power. (For example, you can design multiple object systems for Lisp, in Lisp. Or implement the now-fashionable AOP. Or do arbitrary transformations on parsed source code.) If you don't value expressive power, Lisp ain't for you. I, personally, would prefer Lisp to not become mainstream: this would necessarily involve a dumbing down. -- VladimirSlepnev

The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it [Leadership]. -- Dwight D. Enseinhover.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. –Anne Frank

I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. ~Diane Ackerman

I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing. ~Martha Stewart

You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame. –Erica Jong