We are the sum of our behaviours; excellence therefore is not an act but a habit. -- Aristotle.

Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones. -- Alan J. Perlis (Epigrams in programming)

Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. -- Thomas Edison

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. -- Frank Lloyd Wright

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

When your enemy is making a very serious mistake, don't be impolite and disturb him. -- Napoleon Bonaparte (allegedly)

The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don’t define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them. ~Denis Watiley

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. –Bill Cosby

Change your thoughts and you change your world. –Norman Vincent Peale

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter. ~Francis Chan