The most damaging phrase in the language is, It's always been done that way. -- Rear Admiral Grace Hopper

I think the root of your mistake is saying that macros don't scale to larger groups. The real truth is that macros don't scale to stupider groups. -- Paul Graham, on the Lightweight Languages mailing list.

A society that puts equality -- in the sense of equality of outcome -- ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom. The use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom, and the force, introduced for good purposes, will end up in the hands of people who use it to promote their own interests. -- Milton Friedman (Thomas Sowell: A Conflict of Visions, p130)

There really is no learning without doing. -- Roger Schank, Engines for Education

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. -- Arthur C. Clarke

The opposite of love is not hate, it is indifference. -- Elie Wiesel

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

Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. –Joshua J. Marine

If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten. –Tony Robbins

Your problem isn’t the problem. Your reaction is the problem. ~Anonymous