All creativity is an extended form of a joke. -- Alan Kay
Functional programming is like describing your problem to a mathematician. Imperative programming is like giving instructions to an idiot. -- arcus, #scheme on Freenode
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
The most damaging phrase in the language is, It's always been done that way. -- Rear Admiral Grace Hopper
If something isn’t working, you need to look back and figure out what got you excited in the first place. -- David Gorman (ImThere.com)
I think it is wise, and only honest, to warn you that my goal is immodest. It is not my purpose to "transfer knowledge" to you that, subsequently, you can forget again. My purpose is no less than to effectuate in each of you a noticeable, irreversable change. I want you to gain, for the rest of your lives, the insight that beautiful proofs are not "found" by trial anf error but are the result of a consciously applied design discipline. I want you to raise your quality standards. I mean, if 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself "Dijkstra would not have liked this", well, that would be enough immortality for me. -- E. W. Dijkstra
Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. ~Winston Churchill
The best revenge is massive success. –Frank Sinatra
The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus. ~Bruce Lee
If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough. ~Albert Einstein