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- content:
    - Pascal is for building pyramids—imposing, breathtaking, static structures built by armies pushing heavy blocks into place. Lisp is for building organisms—imposing, breathtaking, dynamic structures built by squads fitting fluctuating myriads of simpler organisms into place.
  author: Alan J. Perlis
  from: foreword for <a href="http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/">SICP</a>

- content:
    - "When you don't create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. Your tastes only narrow & exclude people. So create."
  author: why the luck stiff
  from: <a href="http://whymirror.github.io/">http://whymirror.github.io/</a>

- content:
    - In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
  author: Jan L. A. van de Snepscheut
  from: <a href="http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jan_L._A._van_de_Snepscheut">Wikipedia</a>

- content:
    - The future has already arrived. It is just not evenly distributed yet.
  author: William Gibson
  from: <a href="https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Gibson">Wikiquote</a>

- content:
    - There are many ways of trying to understand programs. People often rely too much on one way, which is called "debugging" and consists of running a partly-understood program to see if it does what you expected. Another way, which ML advocates, is to install some means of understanding in the very programs themselves.
  author: Robin Milner
  from: foreword for <a href="http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/BTML/">The Little MLer</a>