Attitude is no substitute for competence. -- Eric S. Raymond, How to become a hacker

Lisp is a programmable programming language. -- John Foderaro

Sometimes a man with too broad a perspective reveals himself as having no real perspective at all. A man who tries too hard to see every side may be a man who is trying to avoid choosing any side. A man who tries too hard to seek a deeper truth may be trying to hide from the truth he already knows. That is not a sign of intellectual sophistication and "great thinking". It is a demonstration of moral degeneracy and cowardice. -- Steven Den Beste

When you’ve got the code all ripped apart, it’s like a car that’s all disassembled. You’ve got all the parts tying all over your garage and you have to replace the broken part or the car will never run. It’s not fun until the code gets back to the baseline again. -- Gary Kildall (inventor of CP/M, one of the first OS for the micro).

Remember that you are humans in the first place and only after that programmers. -- Alexandru Vancea

We control complexity by building abstractions that hide details when appropriate. We control complexity by establishing conventional interfaces that enable us to construct systems by combining standard, well-understood pieces in a ``mix and match'' way. We control complexity by establishing new languages for describing a design, each of which emphasizes particular aspects of the design and deemphasizes others. -- Alan J. Perlis

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. ~Herman Melville

You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals. ~Booker T. Washington

There are no traffic jams along the extra mile. –Roger Staubach

When you stop chasing the wrong things you give the right things a chance to catch you. ~Lolly Daskal