The problem is that small examples fail to convince, and large examples are too big to follow. -- Steve Yegge.

C’s great for what it’s great for. -- Ben Hoyts (micropledge)

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

Training research shows that if you get speed now you can get quality later. But if you don't get speed you will never get quality in the long run. -- Philip Greenspun

Good artists copy. Great artists steal. -- Pablo Picasso

In order to understand what another person is saying, you must assume that it is true and try to find out what it could be true of. -- George Miller

You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame. –Erica Jong

The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don’t define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them. ~Denis Watiley

The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same. ~Colin R. Davis

I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong. –Benjamin Franklin