So - what are the most important problems in software engineering? I’d answer “dealing with complexity”. -- Mark Chu-Carroll
We will never become a truly paper-less society until the Palm Pilot folks come out with WipeMe 1.0. -- Andy Pierson
That is the inevitable human response. We’re reluctant to believe that great discoveries are in the air. We want to believe that great discoveries are in our heads—and to each party in the multiple the presence of the other party is invariably cause for suspicion. -- Malcolm Gladwell, Who says big ideas are rare?
If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as lines produced but as lines spent. -- Edsger Dijkstra
C++ is like teenage sex: Everybody is talking about it all the time, only few are really doing it. -- unknown
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
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. ~Truman Capote
It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings. –Ann Landers
The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones that do. ~Anonymous
It is never too late to be what you might have been. –George Eliot