A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure. -- Hugh Kingsmill

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

Attitude is no substitute for competence. -- Eric S. Raymond, How to become a hacker

Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams. -- Mary Ellen Kelly

All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection. -- Butler Lampson

If I tell you I'm good, you would probably think I'm boasting. If I tell you I'm no good, you know I'm lying. -- Bruce Lee

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. ~Herman Melville

It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. –Abraham Lincoln

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. –Anne Frank

You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction. ~George Lorimer