Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all sentences short or avoid all detail and treat subjects only in outline, but that every word tell. -- William Strunk, Jr. (The Elements of Style)

I guess, when you're drunk, every woman looks beautiful and every language looks (like) a Lisp :) -- Lament, #[email protected]

C++ is history repeated as tragedy. Java is history repeated as farce. -- Scott McKay

The wonderful and frustrating thing about understanding yourself is that nobody can do it for you. -- BetterExplained.com

The only thing a man should ever be 100% convinced of is his own ignorance. -- DJ MacLean

Some may say Ruby is a bad rip-off of Lisp or Smalltalk, and I admit that. But it is nicer to ordinary people. -- Matz, LL2

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. –Martin Luther King Jr.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. –Booker T. Washington

If you want to achieve greatness stop asking for permission. ~Anonymous

The best revenge is massive success. –Frank Sinatra