A CS professor once explained recursion as follows: A child couldn't sleep, so her mother told her a story about a little frog, who couldn't sleep, so the frog's mother told her a story about a little bear, who couldn't sleep, so the bear's mother told her a story about a little weasel... who fell asleep. ...and the little bear fell asleep; ...and the little frog fell asleep; ...and the child fell asleep. -- everything2.com

Functional programming is to algorithms as the ubiquitous little black dress is to women's fashion. -- Mark Tarver (of "The bipolar Lisp programmer" fame)

Premature abstraction is an equally grevious sin as premature optimization. -- Keith Devens

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.

Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones. -- Alan J. Perlis (Epigrams in programming)

Good artists copy. Great artists steal. -- Pablo Picasso

Education costs money. But then so does ignorance. –Sir Claus Moser

If you want to achieve greatness stop asking for permission. ~Anonymous

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. –Benjamin Franklin

If you genuinely want something, don’t wait for it — teach yourself to be impatient. ~Gurbaksh Chahal