Within a computer natural language is unnatural. -- Alan J. Perlis (Epigrams in programming)

Ne te mets pas de limite, la vie se chargera de la mettre a ta place. -- Darryl AMEDON

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

We tend to seek easy, single-factor explanations of success. For most important things, though, success actually requires avoiding many separate causes of failure. -- Jared Diamond

The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit. -- Anonymous

Its a shame that the students of our generation grew up with windows and mice because that tainted our mindset not to think in terms of powerful tools. Some of us are just so tainted that we will never recover. -- Jeffrey Mark Siskind in comp.lang.lisp

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see. ~Anonymous

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. –Grandma Moses

There are no traffic jams along the extra mile. –Roger Staubach

You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction. ~George Lorimer