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All creativity is an extended form of a joke. -- Alan Kay
There really is no learning without doing. -- Roger Schank, Engines for Education
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Lisp programmers know the value of everything but the cost of nothing. -- Alan J. Perlis
Argue with idiots, and you become an idiot. If you compete with slaves you become a slave. -- Paul Graham and Norbert Weiner, respectively
I think it is wise, and only honest, to warn you that my goal is immodest. It is not my purpose to "transfer knowledge" to you that, subsequently, you can forget again. My purpose is no less than to effectuate in each of you a noticeable, irreversable change. I want you to gain, for the rest of your lives, the insight that beautiful proofs are not "found" by trial anf error but are the result of a consciously applied design discipline. I want you to raise your quality standards. I mean, if 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself "Dijkstra would not have liked this", well, that would be enough immortality for me. -- E. W. Dijkstra
If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. –Latin Proverb
What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. –Bob Dylan
If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten. –Tony Robbins
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. –Benjamin Franklin