New eyes have X-ray vision. [someone that hasn't written it is more likely to spot the bug. "someone" can be you after a break] -- William S. Annis
Well then. How could you possibly live without automated refactoring tools? How else could you coordinate the caterpillar-like motions of all Java’s identical tiny legs, its thousands of similar parts? I’ll tell you how: Ruby is a butterfly. -- Stevey, Refactoring Trilogy, Part 1.
Premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming. -- Donald Knuth
If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
Work as intensely as you play and play as intensely as you work. -- Eric S. Raymond, How To Be A Hacker
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
If you genuinely want something, don’t wait for it — teach yourself to be impatient. ~Gurbaksh Chahal
A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them. ~Henry Kravis
When you stop chasing the wrong things you give the right things a chance to catch you. ~Lolly Daskal
People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing - that’s why we recommend it daily. ~Zig Ziglar