I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. -- Thomas Jefferson

It is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead. -- Edsger Dijkstra

You have to write for your audience. I would never write (1..5).map &'*2' in Java when I could write ListFactoryFactory.getListFactoryFromResource( new ResourceName('com.javax.magnitudes.integers'). setLowerBound(1).setUpperBound(5).setStep(1).applyFunctor( new Functor () { public void eval (x) { return x * 2; } })) I'm simplifying, of course, I've left out the security and logging wrappers. -- Reginald Braithwait

Lisp has jokingly been called "the most intelligent way to misuse a computer". I think that description is a great compliment because it transmits the full flavor of liberation: it has assisted a number of our most gifted fellow humans in thinking previously impossible thoughts. -- Edsger Dijkstra, CACM, 15:10

PI seconds is a nanocentury. -- [fact]

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it's a duck. -- Official definition of "duck typing"

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out. ~Robert Collier

You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. –Christopher Columbus

I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong. –Benjamin Franklin

Change your thoughts and you change your world. –Norman Vincent Peale