Lisp is worth learning for the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it; that experience will make you a better programmer for the rest of your days, even if you never actually use Lisp itself a lot. -- Eric S. Raymond

And if you go too far up, abstraction-wise, you run out of oxygen. Sometimes smart thinkers just don't know when to stop, and they create these absurd, all-encompassing, high-level pictures of the universe that are all good and fine, but don't actually mean anything at all. -- Joel Spolsky

Courage is grace under pressure. -- Ernest Hemingway

We are the sum of our behaviours; excellence therefore is not an act but a habit. -- Aristotle.

C++ is like teenage sex: Everybody is talking about it all the time, only few are really doing it. -- unknown

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it's a duck. -- Official definition of "duck typing"

Either you run the day, or the day runs you. –Jim Rohn

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time. ~George Bernard Shaw

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. ~Swami Vivekananda

Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning. ~Robert Kiyosaki