Lisp has jokingly been called "the most intelligent way to misuse a computer". I think that description is a great compliment because it transmits the full flavor of liberation: it has assisted a number of our most gifted fellow humans in thinking previously impossible thoughts. -- Edsger Dijkstra, CACM, 15:10

Actually, the essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty. Satisfaction lies in mindful repetition, the discovery of endless richness in subtle variations on familiar themes. -- George Leonard, Mastery.

Any code of your own that you haven’t looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else. -- Eagleson’s Law

The lesson of the story might appear to be that self-interested and ambitious people in power are often the cause of wastefulness in developing countries. But self-interested and ambitious people are in positions of power, great and small, all over the world. In many places, they are restrained by the law, the press, and democratic opposition. Cameroon's tragedy is that there is nothing to hold self-interest in check. -- Tim Harford

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for. -- Greek philosopher Epicurus

Omit needless words. -- William Strunk, Jr. (The Elements of Style)

The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. –Ayn Rand

I would rather die of passion than of boredom. –Vincent van Gogh

Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument. ~Anonymous

The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors. ~Napoleon Hill