I think the root of your mistake is saying that macros don't scale to larger groups. The real truth is that macros don't scale to stupider groups. -- Paul Graham, on the Lightweight Languages mailing list.
Programming is the art of figuring out what you want so precisely that even a machine can do it. -- Some guy who isn't famous
The direct pursuit of happiness is a recipe for an unhappy life. -- Donald Campbell
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. -- Mark Twain
[How friendly will this machine be?] Well, I don’t think it’s a matter of friendliness, because ultimately if the program is going to accomplish anything of value, it will probably be relatively complex. -- Gary Kildall (inventor of CP/M, one of the first OS for the micro).
We now come to the decisive step of mathematical abstraction: we forget about what the symbols stand for. ...[The mathematician] need not be idle; there are many operations which he may carry out with these symbols, without ever having to look at the things they stand for. -- Hermann Weyl, The Mathematical Way of Thinking
It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live. –Mae Jemison
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
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. –Robert Frost
Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is. –Vince Lombardi