Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. -- Donald Knuth
If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in. -- Edsger W. Dijkstra
Attitude is no substitute for competence. -- Eric S. Raymond, How to become a hacker
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
Hire people smarter than you. Work with people smarter than you. Listen to them. Let them lead you. Take the blame for all failures, give away the credit for all successes. -- How to fail: 25 secrets learned through failure
Humans aren't rational -- they rationalize. And I don't just mean "some of them" or "other people". I'm talking about everyone. We have a "logic engine" in our brains, but for the most part, it's not the one in the driver's seat -- instead it operates after the fact, generating rationalizations and excuses for our behavior. -- Paul Buchheit
The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. –Ayn Rand
The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it. ~Henry Ford
Dream big and dare to fail. –Norman Vaughan
There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. –Aristotle