Selections from Paul Graham's quotes page... "Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute." - Abelson & Sussman,

Selections from Paul Graham's quotes page... "Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute." - Abelson & Sussman, SICP, preface to the first edition "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted." - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture "Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - Alan Kay "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 Perlis "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 "The key to performance is elegance, not battalions of special cases." - Jon Bentley and Doug McIlroy "Change breaks the brittle." - Jan Houtema "Your twenties are always an apprenticeship, but you don't always know what for." - Jan Houtema "Focusing is about saying no." - Steve Jobs Source: http://paulgraham.com/quo.html http://paulgraham.com/quo.html