Training research shows that if you get speed now you can get quality later. But if you don't get speed you will never get quality in the long run. -- Philip Greenspun
The best way to learn to live with our limitations is to know them. --E. W. Dijkstra, The humble programmer
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
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity. And I'm not so sure about the former. -- Albert Einstein
That is one of the most distinctive differences between school and the real world: there is no reward for putting in a good effort. In fact, the whole concept of a "good effort" is a fake idea adults invented to encourage kids. It is not found in nature. -- Paul Graham
The only thing a man should ever be 100% convinced of is his own ignorance. -- DJ MacLean
The starting point of all achievement is desire. ~Napolean Hill
Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. ~John D. Rockefeller
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. ~Eleanor Roosevelt
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. –Confucius