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)
While I’ve always appreciated beautiful code, I share Jonathan’s concern about studying it too much. I think studying beauty in music and painting has led us to modern classical music and painting that the majority of us just don’t get. Beauty can be seen when it emerges, but isn’t something to strive for in isolation of a larger context. In the software world, the larger context would be the utility of the software to the end user. -- [A comment on a blog]
The only thing a man should ever be 100% convinced of is his own ignorance. -- DJ MacLean
Functional programming is like describing your problem to a mathematician. Imperative programming is like giving instructions to an idiot. -- arcus, #scheme on Freenode
Des mots simples, quand ils sont bien utilisés, font faire à des gens ordinaires des choses extraordinaires. -- Khaled TANGAO
Lisp has jokingly been called "the most intelligent way to misuse a computer". I think that description is a great compliment because it transmits the full flavor of liberation: it has assisted a number of our most gifted fellow humans in thinking previously impossible thoughts. -- Edsger Dijkstra, CACM, 15:10
The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors. ~Napoleon Hill
There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul. ~Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The best reason to start an organization is to make meaning; to create a product or service to make the world a better place. ~Guy Kawasaki
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.~ Oscar Wilde