What Paul does, and does very well, is to take ideas and concepts that are beautiful in the abstract, and brings them down to a real world level. That's a rare talent to find in writing these days. -- Jeff "hemos" Bates, Director, OSDN; Co-evolver, Slashdot

Abstraction is a form of data compression: absolutely necessary, because human short-term memory is so small, but the critically important aspect of abstraction is the algorithm that gets you from the name back to the "uncompressed" details. -- Bruce Wilder (blog post comment)

Do not accept anything because it comes from the mouth of a respected person. -- Buddha

Have you ever noticed that when you sit down to write something, half the ideas that end up in it are ones you thought of while writing it? The same thing happens with software. Working to implement one idea gives you more ideas. -- Paul Graham, The other road ahead.

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.

Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them. -- Alan Perlis

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. ~Margaret Thatcher

15.Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. –Charles Swindoll

We become what we think about. –Earl Nightingale

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. ~Dale Carnegie