Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them. -- Alan Perlis

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. -- Goethe

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

Just like carpentry, measure twice cut once. -- Super-sizing YouTube with Python (Mike Solomon, [email protected])

1 - Creativity and innovation always build on the past. 2 - The past always tries to control the creativity that builds on it. 3 - Free societies enable the future by limiting the past. 4 - Ours is less and less a free society. -- Lawrence Lessig, Free Culture.

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. -- Benjamin Franklin

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. ~Steve Jobs

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. –Plato

Eighty percent of success is showing up. –Woody Allen

Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. –George Addair