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

I guess, when you're drunk, every woman looks beautiful and every language looks (like) a Lisp :) -- Lament, #[email protected]

A no uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a yes merely uttered to please or what is worse, to avoid trouble. -- Mahatma Gandhi

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

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

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. -- Thomas Edison

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. ~Dale Carnegie

There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. –Aristotle

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others. ~Bill Gates

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, “I’m possible!” –Audrey Hepburn