A society that puts equality -- in the sense of equality of outcome -- ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom. The use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom, and the force, introduced for good purposes, will end up in the hands of people who use it to promote their own interests. -- Milton Friedman (Thomas Sowell: A Conflict of Visions, p130)
He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. -- Matthew 5:45
Do you want to sell sugared water all your life or do you want to change the world? -- Steve Jobs, to John Sculley (former Pepsi executive)
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 best way to learn to live with our limitations is to know them. --E. W. Dijkstra, The humble programmer
All creativity is an extended form of a joke. -- Alan Kay
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. ~Pablo Picasso
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame. –Erica Jong
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. –Mark Twain
The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. –Ayn Rand