To follow the path: look to the master, follow the master, walk with the master, see through the master, become the master. -- Modern zen Poem
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
Philosophy: the finding of bad reasons for what one believes by instinct. -- Brave New World (paraphrased)
I think there’s a world market for about 5 computers. -- Thomas J. Watson, Chairman of the Board, IBM, circa 1948
Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter. -- Eric Raymond
The best programmers are not marginally better than merely good ones. They are an order-of-magnitude better, measured by whatever standard: conceptual creativity, speed, ingenuity of design, or problem-solving ability. -- Randall E. Stross
The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors. ~Napoleon 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
Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. –George Addair
If you’re going through hell keep going. ~Winston Churchill