You think you know when you learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program. -- Alan J. Perlis (Epigrams in programming)
No one is all evil. Everybody has a good side. If you keep waiting, it will comme up. -- Randy Pausch
Good work is no done by ‘humble’ men. -- H. Hardy, A mathematician's apology.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. -- Goethe
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
Have you ever noticed that when you sit down to write something, half the ideas that end up in it are ones you thought of while writing it? The same thing happens with software. Working to implement one idea gives you more ideas. -- Paul Graham, The other road ahead.
Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. ~John R. Wooden
People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily. –Zig Ziglar
The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones that do. ~Anonymous
Fortune sides with him who dares. ~Virgil