Code is poetry. -- wordpress.org

If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough. -- Mario Andretti

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Simplicity and pragmatism beat complexity and theory any day. -- Dennis (blog comment)

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

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. -- Aristotle.

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. –Michael Jordan

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. ~Thomas A. Edison

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it. ~Washington Irving

Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out. ~John Wooden