Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it. -- Alan J. Perlis (Epigrams in programming)

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

If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution. -- Robert Sewell

Lisp is a programmable programming language. -- John Foderaro

The problem is that small examples fail to convince, and large examples are too big to follow. -- Steve Yegge.

The hardest part of design ... is keeping features out. -- Donald Norman

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. –Pablo Picasso

It is never too late to be what you might have been. –George Eliot

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. –Grandma Moses

Dream big and dare to fail. –Norman Vaughan