If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as lines produced but as lines spent. -- Edsger Dijkstra

The job of a leader today is not to create followers. It’s to create more leaders. -- Ralph Nader

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 good thing about reinventing the wheel is that you get a round one. -- Douglas Crockford (Author of JSON and JsLint)

The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise. -- Edsger Dijkstra

I was talking recently to a friend who teaches at MIT. His field is hot now and every year he is inundated by applications from would-be graduate students. "A lot of them seem smart," he said. "What I can't tell is whether they have any kind of taste." -- Paul Graham

There are no traffic jams along the extra mile. –Roger Staubach

Knowledge is being aware of what you can do. Wisdom is knowing when not to do it. ~Anonymous

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. –Steve Jobs

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it. ~Henry Ford