The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple. -- Grady Booch
Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp. -- Philip Greenspun (Greenspun's Tenth Rule)
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
There are many ways to avoid success in life, but the most sure-fire just might be procrastination. -- Hara Estroff Marano.
We tend to seek easy, single-factor explanations of success. For most important things, though, success actually requires avoiding many separate causes of failure. -- Jared Diamond
Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. -- Martin Golding
If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on. –Sheryl Sandberg
Life is about making an impact, not making an income. --Kevin Kruse
Education costs money. But then so does ignorance. –Sir Claus Moser
It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings. –Ann Landers