It is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead. -- Edsger Dijkstra
The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit. -- Anonymous
The direct pursuit of happiness is a recipe for an unhappy life. -- Donald Campbell
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
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. -- Sherlock Holmes
We fail to realize that mastery is not about perfection. It's about a process, a journey. The master is the one who stays on the path day after day, year after year. The master is the one who is willing to try, and fail, and try again, for as long as he or she lives. -- George Leonard, Mastery.
Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to doDon’t wish it were easier, wish you were better. ~Jim Rohn
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.~ Oscar Wilde
Your problem isn’t the problem. Your reaction is the problem. ~Anonymous
I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. –Stephen Covey