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

Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter. -- Eric Raymond

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. -- Frank Lloyd Wright

The president was visiting NASA headquarters and stopped to talk to a man who was holding a mop. “And what do you do?” he asked. The man, a janitor, replied, “I’m helping to put a man on the moon, sir.” -- The little book of leadership

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. -- Dr. Seuss

Remember, always be yourself ... unless you suck! -- Joss Whedon

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. –Stephen Covey

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. –Maya Angelou

Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. ~Anonymous

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. –Lao Tzu