XML wasn't designed to be edited by humans on a regular basis. -- Guido van Rossum
Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed. -- George Burns
We tend to seek easy, single-factor explanations of success. For most important things, though, success actually requires avoiding many separate causes of failure. -- Jared Diamond
We now come to the decisive step of mathematical abstraction: we forget about what the symbols stand for. ...[The mathematician] need not be idle; there are many operations which he may carry out with these symbols, without ever having to look at the things they stand for. -- Hermann Weyl, The Mathematical Way of Thinking
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
Only bad designers blame their failings on the users. -- unknown
The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself. ~Mark Caine
The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself. ~Mark Caine
Teach thy tongue to say, I do not know, and thous shalt progress. –Maimonides
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. –Maya Angelou