Lisp has jokingly been called "the most intelligent way to misuse a computer". I think that description is a great compliment because it transmits the full flavor of liberation: it has assisted a number of our most gifted fellow humans in thinking previously impossible thoughts. -- Edsger Dijkstra, CACM, 15:10

Sometimes a man with too broad a perspective reveals himself as having no real perspective at all. A man who tries too hard to see every side may be a man who is trying to avoid choosing any side. A man who tries too hard to seek a deeper truth may be trying to hide from the truth he already knows. That is not a sign of intellectual sophistication and "great thinking". It is a demonstration of moral degeneracy and cowardice. -- Steven Den Beste

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. -- Dr. Seuss

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler. -- Albert Einstein

C++ is like teenage sex: Everybody is talking about it all the time, only few are really doing it. -- unknown

The hardest part of design ... is keeping features out. -- Donald Norman

The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones that do. ~Anonymous

The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself--the invisible battles inside all of us--that's where it's at. –Jesse Owens

Good things come to people who wait, but better things come to those who go out and get them. ~Anonymous

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul. ~Ella Wheeler Wilcox