Lisp is worth learning for the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it; that experience will make you a better programmer for the rest of your days, even if you never actually use Lisp itself a lot.

When you lose interest in a program, your last duty to it is to hand it off to a competent successor.

Free markets select for winning solutions.

Provided the development coordinator has a communications medium at least as good as the Internet and knows how to lead without coercion, many heads are inevitably better than one.

Smart data structures and dumb code works a lot better than the other way around.

Software is largely a service industry operating under the persistent but unfounded delusion that it is a manufacturing industry

For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power and storage capacity to the minicomputers of ten years earlier - Unix engines capable of supporting a full development environment and talking to the Internet.