Never do the impossible. People will expect you to do it forever after. -- pigsandfishes.com
There are many ways to avoid success in life, but the most sure-fire just might be procrastination. -- Hara Estroff Marano.
Ne te mets pas de limite, la vie se chargera de la mettre a ta place. -- Darryl AMEDON
It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC. As potential programmers, they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration. -- E. W. Dijkstra
Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. -- Martin Golding
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
There are no traffic jams along the extra mile. –Roger Staubach
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it. ~Washington Irving
If you genuinely want something, don’t wait for it — teach yourself to be impatient. ~Gurbaksh Chahal
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me. –Erma Bombeck