An expert is, according to my working definition "someone who doesn't need to look up answers to easy questions". -- Eric Lippert.
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
Ce n’est que par les beaux sentiments qu’on parvient à la fortune ! -- Charles Baudelaire, Conseils aux jeunes littérateurs.
:nunmap can also be used outside of a monastery. -- Vim user manual
Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte. (I have made this letter so long only because I did not have the leisure to make it shorter.) -- Blaise Pascal (Lettres Provinciales)
Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment. -- Seneca
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. ~Swami Vivekananda
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. ~Eleanor Roosevelt
Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart. – Ancient Indian Proverb
The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors. ~Napoleon Hill