The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it [Leadership]. -- Dwight D. Enseinhover.
Revolutions come from standing on the shoulders of giants and facing in a better direction. -- Alan Kay
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. -- Thomas Edison
Premature abstraction is an equally grevious sin as premature optimization. -- Keith Devens
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
The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: "I did not have time." -- WestHost weekly newsletter 14 Feb 2003
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. ~Eleanor Roosevelt
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
The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it. –Chinese Proverb
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame. –Erica Jong