There are two ways of constructing a software design; one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult. -- C. A. R. Hoare
To iterate is human, to recurse divine. -- L. Peter Deutsch
The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public. -- Anonymous
Two people should stay together if together they are better people than they would be individually. -- ?
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
If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough. -- Mario Andretti
Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable. ~Theodore N. Vail
If you do what you always did, you will get what you always got. ~Anonymous
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. –Alice Walker
14.Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover. –Mark Twain