The problem is that small examples fail to convince, and large examples are too big to follow. -- Steve Yegge.

Revolutions come from standing on the shoulders of giants and facing in a better direction. -- Alan Kay

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

Everybody makes their own fun. If you don't make it yourself, it ain't fun -- it's entertainment. -- David Mamet (as relayed by Joss Whedon)

First learn computer science and all the theory. Next develop a programming style. Then forget all that and just hack. -- George Carrette

You must always work not just within but below your means. If you can handle three elements, handle only two. If you can handle ten, then handle five. In that way the ones you do handle, you handle with more ease, more mastery and you create a feeling of strength in reserve. -- Pablo Picasso

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

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. –Grandma Moses

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

To be successful you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can’t just accept the ones you like. ~Mike Gafka