The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution. -- Bertrand Russell

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

More computing sins are committed in the name of efficiency (without necessarily achieving it) than for any other single reason - including blind stupidity. -- W.A. Wulf

Training research shows that if you get speed now you can get quality later. But if you don't get speed you will never get quality in the long run. -- Philip Greenspun

I'm always happy to trade performance for readability as long as the former isn't already scarce. -- Crayz (Commentor on blog.raganwald.com)

If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in. -- Edsger W. Dijkstra

The mind is everything. What you think you become. –Buddha

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. ~Eleanor Roosevelt

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. –Alice Walker

You can do anything, but not everything. ~Anonymous