I think there’s a world market for about 5 computers. -- Thomas J. Watson, Chairman of the Board, IBM, circa 1948

A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure. -- Hugh Kingsmill

What we choose to fight is so tiny! What fights us is so great! ... When we win it's with small things, and the triumph itself makes us small. ... Winning does not tempt that man. This is how he grows: by being defeated, decisively, by constantly greater beings. -- Rainer Maria Rilke, The Man Watching.

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

Simple things should be simple. Complex things should be possible. -- Alan Kay

Premature abstraction is an equally grevious sin as premature optimization. -- Keith Devens

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, “I’m possible!” –Audrey Hepburn

Do one thing every day that scares you. ~Anonymous

15.Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. –Charles Swindoll

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. ~Ralph Nader