The good thing about reinventing the wheel is that you get a round one. -- Douglas Crockford (Author of JSON and JsLint)

Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. -- Ferris Bueller

Omit needless words. -- William Strunk, Jr. (The Elements of Style)

You can’t get to version 500 if you don’t start with a version 1. -- BetterExplained.com

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

While I’ve always appreciated beautiful code, I share Jonathan’s concern about studying it too much. I think studying beauty in music and painting has led us to modern classical music and painting that the majority of us just don’t get. Beauty can be seen when it emerges, but isn’t something to strive for in isolation of a larger context. In the software world, the larger context would be the utility of the software to the end user. -- [A comment on a blog]

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. –Amelia Earhart

If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much. ~ Jim Rohn

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. –Robert Frost

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. ~Pablo Picasso