What is truth? -- Pontius Pilate

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.

You must always work not just within but below your means. If you can handle three elements, handle only two. If you can handle ten, then handle five. In that way the ones you do handle, you handle with more ease, more mastery and you create a feeling of strength in reserve. -- Pablo Picasso

It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission. -- Rear Admiral Dr. Grace Hopper

Well, if you talk about programming to a group of programmers who use the same language, they can become almost evangelistic about the language. They form a tight-knit community, hold to certain beliefs, and follow certain rules in their programming. It’s like a church with a programming language for a Bible. -- Gary Kildall (inventor of CP/M, one of the first OS for the micro).

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. -- Thomas Jefferson

Dream big and dare to fail. –Norman Vaughan

Good things come to people who wait, but better things come to those who go out and get them. ~Anonymous

Life is about making an impact, not making an income. --Kevin Kruse

A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them. ~Henry Kravis