Good coders code, great reuse. -- http://www.catonmat.net

I think that a lot of programmers are ignoring an important point when people talk about reducing code repetition on large projects. Part of the idea is that large projects are intrinsically *wrong*. That you should be looking at making a number of smaller projects that are composable, even if you never end up reusing one of those smaller projects elsewhere. -- Dan Nugent

Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp. -- Philip Greenspun (Greenspun's Tenth Rule)

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

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

Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming. -- Brian Kernigan

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.~ Oscar Wilde

14.Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover. –Mark Twain

It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. –Abraham Lincoln

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. –Lao Tzu