Since programmers create programs out of nothing, imagination is our only limitation. Thus, in the world of programming, the hero is the one who has great vision. Paul Graham is one of our contemporary heroes. He has the ability to embrace the vision, and to express it plainly. His works are my favorites, especially the ones describing language design. He explains secrets of programming, languages, and human nature that can only be learned from the hacker experience. This book shows you his great vision, and tells you the truth about the nature of hacking. -- Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto, creator of Ruby

Good programmers use their brains, but good guidelines save us having to think out every case. -- Francis Glassborow

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. -- Mark Twain

Have you ever noticed that when you sit down to write something, half the ideas that end up in it are ones you thought of while writing it? The same thing happens with software. Working to implement one idea gives you more ideas. -- Paul Graham, The other road ahead.

Ne te mets pas de limite, la vie se chargera de la mettre a ta place. -- Darryl AMEDON

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

Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument. ~Anonymous

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. ~David Brinkley

Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. –Gloria Steinem

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe