Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832)

Pay attention to opportunity cost at all times. Doing one thing means not doing other things. This is a form of risk that is very easy to ignore, to your detriment. -- Marc Andreessen (http://blog.pmarca.com/)

It is said that the real winner is the one who lives in today but able to see tomorrow. -- Juan Meng, Reviewing "The future of ideas" by Lawrence Lessig

I think that a lot of programmers are ignoring an important point when people talk about reducing code repetition on large projects. Part of the idea is that large projects are intrinsically *wrong*. That you should be looking at making a number of smaller projects that are composable, even if you never end up reusing one of those smaller projects elsewhere. -- Dan Nugent

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

The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public. -- Anonymous

You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. –Maya Angelou

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it. ~Washington Irving

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. –Henry Ford

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. ~Dale Carnegie