Hire people smarter than you. Work with people smarter than you. Listen to them. Let them lead you. Take the blame for all failures, give away the credit for all successes. -- How to fail: 25 secrets learned through failure
I would rather be an optimist and be wrong than a pessimist who proves to be right. The former sometimes wins, but never the latter. -- "Hoots"
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
More computing sins are committed in the name of efficiency (without necessarily achieving it) than for any other single reason - including blind stupidity. -- W.A. Wulf
Simplicity means the achievement of maximum effect with minimum means. -- Dr. Koichi Kawana
Be the change you want to see in the world. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see. –Confucius
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. ~Steve Jobs
Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him. –Booker T. Washington
Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right. –Henry Ford