C and Lisp stand at opposite ends of the spectrum; they're each great at what the other one sucks at. -- Steve Yegge, Tour de Babel.

Chance favors the prepared mind. -- Louis Pasteur

It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration. -- Edsger Dijkstra

The best way to learn to live with our limitations is to know them. --E. W. Dijkstra, The humble programmer

No matter how much you plan you’re likely to get half wrong anyway. So don’t do the ‘paralysis through analysis’ thing. That only slows progress and saps morale. -- 37 Signal, Getting real

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

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. ~David Brinkley

The mind is everything. What you think you become. –Buddha

Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to doDon’t wish it were easier, wish you were better. ~Jim Rohn

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see. ~Anonymous