I think the root of your mistake is saying that macros don't scale to larger groups. The real truth is that macros don't scale to stupider groups. -- Paul Graham, on the Lightweight Languages mailing list.

A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer. -- Bill Gates

Lisp is worth learning for the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it; that experience will make you a better programmer for the rest of your days, even if you never actually use Lisp itself a lot. -- Eric S. Raymond

No art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to excel in it. -- Alberti

Je crois au flooding. -- Karim BAINA (en parlant du dailogue avec les administrations)

Simplicity and pragmatism beat complexity and theory any day. -- Dennis (blog comment)

I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong. –Benjamin Franklin

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absense of fear. ~Mark Twain

The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it. –Chinese Proverb

I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong. –Benjamin Franklin