Programming is the art of figuring out what you want so precisely that even a machine can do it. -- Some guy who isn't famous
Acknowledging the negative doesn't mean sniveling [whining, complaining]; it means facing the truth and then moving on. -- George Leonard, Mastery.
Let me try to get this straight: Lisp is a language for describing algorithms. This was JohnMcCarthy's original purpose, anyway: to build something more convenient than a Turing machine. Lisp is not about file, socket or GUI programming - Lisp is about expressive power. (For example, you can design multiple object systems for Lisp, in Lisp. Or implement the now-fashionable AOP. Or do arbitrary transformations on parsed source code.) If you don't value expressive power, Lisp ain't for you. I, personally, would prefer Lisp to not become mainstream: this would necessarily involve a dumbing down. -- VladimirSlepnev
If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as *lines produced* but as *lines spent*. -- Edsger Dijkstra
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. -- Cited by Randy Pausch
A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer. -- Bill Gates
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. –Maya Angelou
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing. ~Dale Carnegie
The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors. ~Napoleon Hill
Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right. –Henry Ford