Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. -- Martin Golding
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should therefore be regarded as a criminal offense. -- E.W. Dijkstra
Its a shame that the students of our generation grew up with windows and mice because that tainted our mindset not to think in terms of powerful tools. Some of us are just so tainted that we will never recover. -- Jeffrey Mark Siskind in comp.lang.lisp
Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well. -- Earl of Chesterfield
Wear your best for your execution and stand dignified. Your last recourse against randomness is how you act — if you can’t control outcomes, you can control the elegance of your behaviour. You will always have the last word. -- Nassim Taleb
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
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. –Anais Nin
Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, “I’m possible!” –Audrey Hepburn
The starting point of all achievement is desire. ~Napolean Hill
Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him. –Booker T. Washington