Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.--Alan Kay
Premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming.-- Donald Knuth
Lisp has jokingly been called "the most intelligent way to misuse a computer". I think that description is a great compliment because it transmits the full flavor of liberation: it has assisted a number of our most gifted fellow humans in thinking previously impossible thoughts.-- Edsger Dijkstra, CACM, 15:10
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.-- Mark Twain
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
To follow the path:    look to the master,    follow the master,    walk with the master,    see through the master,    become the master.-- Modern zen Poem
No problem should ever have to be solved twice.-- Eric S. Raymond, How to become a hacker
Attitude is no substitute for competence.-- Eric S. Raymond, How to become a hacker
It is said that the real winner is the one who lives in today but able to see tomorrow.-- Juan Meng, Reviewing "The future of ideas" by Lawrence Lessig
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.-- Alan J. Perlis (Epigrams in programming)
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.-- Alan J. Perlis (Epigrams in programming)
Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve. -- Alan J. Perlis (Epigrams in programmi ng)
Within a computer natural language is unnatural.-- Alan J. Perlis (Epigrams in programming)
You think you know when you learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.-- Alan J. Perlis (Epigrams in programming)