I’d rather write programs to write programs than write programs. -- Richard Sites

If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as lines produced but as lines spent. -- Edsger Dijkstra

Be the change you want to see in the world. -- Mahatma Gandhi

Lisp has jokingly been called "the most intelligent way to misuse a computer". I think that description is a great compliment because it transmits the full flavor of liberation: it has assisted a number of our most gifted fellow humans in thinking previously impossible thoughts. -- Edsger Dijkstra, CACM, 15:10

While I’ve always appreciated beautiful code, I share Jonathan’s concern about studying it too much. I think studying beauty in music and painting has led us to modern classical music and painting that the majority of us just don’t get. Beauty can be seen when it emerges, but isn’t something to strive for in isolation of a larger context. In the software world, the larger context would be the utility of the software to the end user. -- [A comment on a blog]

1 - Creativity and innovation always build on the past. 2 - The past always tries to control the creativity that builds on it. 3 - Free societies enable the future by limiting the past. 4 - Ours is less and less a free society. -- Lawrence Lessig, Free Culture.

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

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. ~Anonymous

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. ~Thomas A. Edison

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. ~Ralph Nader