No matter how much you plan you’re likely to get half wrong anyway. So don’t do the ‘paralysis through analysis’ thing. That only slows progress and saps morale. -- 37 Signal, Getting real

When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. -- unknown

We are the sum of our behaviours; excellence therefore is not an act but a habit. -- Aristotle.

It(mastering)’s knowing what you are doing. -- Joesgoals.com

In OO, it's the data that is the "important" thing: you define the class which contains member data, and only incidentally contains code for manipulating the object. In FP, it's the code that's important: you define a function which contains code for working with the data, and only incidentally define what the data is. -- almkgor, on reddit

Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte. (I have made this letter so long only because I did not have the leisure to make it shorter.) -- Blaise Pascal (Lettres Provinciales)

People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy. ~Tony Robbins

A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty. –Unknown

The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones that do. ~Anonymous

Opportunities don’t happen, you create them. ~Chris Grosser