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

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are always cocksure and the intelligent are always filled with doubt. -- Bertrand Russell

We really have to get over the idea that some stuff is just worth knowing even if you never do anything with it. Human memories happily erase stuff that has no purpose, so why try to fill up children's heads with such stuff? -- Roger Schank, Engines for Education

Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it. -- Alan Kay

Only make new mistakes. -- Phil Dourado

To do something well you have to love it. So to the extent you can preserve hacking as something you love, you're likely to do it well. Try to keep the sense of wonder you had about programming at age 14. If you're worried that your current job is rotting your brain, it probably is. -- Paul Graham.

You can’t fall if you don’t climb. But there’s no joy in living your whole life on the ground. –Unknown

The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones that do. ~Anonymous

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear. –Rosa Parks

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear. –Rosa Parks