Lisp programmers know the value of everything but the cost of nothing. -- Alan J. Perlis

Being a programmer is the same way. The only way to be a good programmer is to write code. When you realize you haven't been writing much code lately, and it seems like all you do is brag about code you wrote in the past, and people start looking at you funny while you're shooting your mouth off, realize it's because they know. They might not even know they know, but they know. So, yes, doing what you love brings success, and by all means, throw yourself a nice big party, buy yourself a nice car, soak up the adulation of an adoring crowd. Then shut the fuck up and get back to work. -- Sincerity Theory

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. -- Frank Lloyd Wright

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. -- Thomas Jefferson

Well then. How could you possibly live without automated refactoring tools? How else could you coordinate the caterpillar-like motions of all Java’s identical tiny legs, its thousands of similar parts? I’ll tell you how: Ruby is a butterfly. -- Stevey, Refactoring Trilogy, Part 1.

I think the root of your mistake is saying that macros don't scale to larger groups. The real truth is that macros don't scale to stupider groups. -- Paul Graham, on the Lightweight Languages mailing list.

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

You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals. ~Booker T. Washington

If you can dream it, you can achieve it. –Zig Ziglar

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. –Benjamin Franklin