You can have premature generalization as well as premature optimization. -- Bjarne Stroustrup

Thus, programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute. -- Alan J. Perlis

You can have premature generalization as well as premature optimization. -- Bjarne Stroustrup

Another feature about this guy is his low threshold of boredom. He'll pick up on a task and work frantically at it, accomplishing wonders in a short time and then get bored and drop it before its properly finished. He'll do nothing but strum his guitar and lie around in bed for several days after. Thats also part of the pattern too; periods of frenetic activity followed by periods of melancholia, withdrawal and inactivity. This is a bipolar personality. -- The bipolar lisp programmer

C++ is like teenage sex: Everybody is talking about it all the time, only few are really doing it. -- unknown

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

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. ~Mark Twain

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. –Les Brown

First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end. –Aristotle

Good things come to people who wait, but better things come to those who go out and get them. ~Anonymous