Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp. -- Philip Greenspun (Greenspun's Tenth Rule)
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
The best is the enemy of the good. -- Voltaire
The best programmers are not marginally better than merely good ones. They are an order-of-magnitude better, measured by whatever standard: conceptual creativity, speed, ingenuity of design, or problem-solving ability. -- Randall E. Stross
However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results. -- Winston Churchill
Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. ~Lolly Daskal
A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them. ~Henry Kravis
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time. ~George Bernard Shaw
Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value. ~Albert Einstein