“LISP can be viewed as a highly successful exercise in the mechanization of applied logic.” #Dijkstra

“Use data-driven programming, where pattern/action pairs are stored in a table.” #PeterNorvig

“The unavoidable price of reliability is simplicity.” #TonyHoare

“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” #AndyWarhol

“Sometimes there is no answer. The problem exists, but the solution does not. Then you're on your own.” #WilliamWeaver

“The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.” #NielsBohr

“Imagination is the shortest route between any two conceivable points.” #JGBallard

“I am among those who think that science has great beauty.” #MarieCurie

“We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.” #MarshallMcLuhan

“The tools we use have a profound (and devious!) influence on our thinking habits, and, therefore, on our thinking abilities.” #Dijkstra

“A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word on paper.” #EBWhite

“The fox condemns the trap not himself.” #WilliamBlake on debugging

“Everyone blames his memory, no one blames his judgment.” #LaRochefoucauld

“The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.” #WilliamJames

“I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's.” #WilliamBlake

“Our temper sets a price upon every gift that we receive from fortune.” #LaRochefoucauld

“Unix was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things.” #DougGwyn

“With your spirit settled, accumulate practice day by day, and hour by hour.” #MusashimiYamoto

“No people are more often wrong than those who will not allow themselves to be wrong.” #LaRochefoucauld

“Don't try just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.” #WilliamFaulkner

“The good craftsman places positive value on contingency and constraint.” #RichardSennett https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Craftsman_(book)

“The habit of starting to understand any new data by drawing pictures is certainly something we inculcate.” http://bactra.org/weblog/925.html

“Naps are essential to my process.” #WilliamGibson

“Debugging a program is twice as hard as writing one. If you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you debug it?” #BrianKernighan

“Everything good in life — love, nature, the arts, and family jests — is play.” #VladimirNabokov

“[T]he intensity of the conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing on whether it is true or not.” #PeterMedawar https://www.weizmann.ac.il/mcb/UriAlon/sites/mcb.UriAlon/files/uploads/medawar.pdf

“Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.” #AlanKay

“I now believe that thinking [...] is the best debugging tool of all, because it leads to better software.” #RobPike https://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1941206

“[Lisp] programs read like quiet conversations between a researcher and a mechanical colleague, not as a debate with a compiler.” #RichardGabriel

“Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.” #Montaigne, 1580

“[Lisp] has assisted a number of our most gifted fellow humans in thinking previously impossible thoughts.” #Dijkstra

“A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. Only his are more permanent because they are made of ideas.” #GHHardy

“Choose a data representation that makes your program simple.” #BrianKernighan, 1974

“Use recursive procedures for recursively-defined data structures.” #BrianKernighan, 1974

“By relieving the brain of all unnecesary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems.” #ANWhitehead

“I don't have an enormous desire to help children, but I have an enormous desire to create better adults.” #AlanKay

“Lisp has a crystalline purity that not only appeals to the aesthetic sense, but makes it far more flexible than most languages.” #Hofstadter

“Let the data structure the program.” #BrianKernighan, 1974

“There are no subject matters; no branches of learning — or, rather, inquiry: there are only problems, and the urge to solve them.” #KarlPopper

“We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyze them.” #WilliamJames

“The combination of data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from those data.” #JohnTukey

“I have declared a spiritual war upon all coercion that restricts man's free creative activity.” #Lukasiewicz

“There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.” Ken Olson, Digital Equipment Corporation, at the World Future Society Convention, 1977

“[T]he user interface would have to become a learning environment along the lines of Montessori and Bruner.” #AlanKay http://dorophone.blogspot.com/2011/07/duckspeak-vs-smalltalk.html

“Graphical presentation appears to be at the very heart of insightful data analysis.” #JohnTukey

“Like fire, the chi-squared test is an excellent servant and a bad master.” #SirAustinBradfordHill

“#DougMcIlroy doesn't use malloc to allocate memory. He uses his bare hands.” https://github.com/mischief/9problems/blob/master/lib/dougfacts

“It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than 10 functions on 10 data structures.” #AlanPerlis

“In general, an implementation must be conservative in its sending behavior, and liberal in its receiving behavior.” #JonPostel, RFC791

“XML amounts to some Lisp data structures reinterpreted by people with bad taste brainwashed by inflexibility.” #RichardGabriel