In terms of energy, it's better to make a wrong choice than none at all. -- George Leonard, Mastery.

Always dive down into a problem and get your hands on the deepest issue behind the problem. All other considerations are to dismissed as "engineering details"; they can be sorted out after the basic problem has been solved. -- Chris Crawford

The opposite of love is not hate, it is indifference. -- Elie Wiesel

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

Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones. -- Alan J. Perlis (Epigrams in programming)

If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in. -- Edsger W. Dijkstra

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear. –Rosa Parks

Your problem isn’t the problem. Your reaction is the problem. ~Anonymous

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing. ~Dale Carnegie

Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value. ~Albert Einstein