You have to write for your audience. I would never write (1..5).map &'*2' in Java when I could write ListFactoryFactory.getListFactoryFromResource( new ResourceName('com.javax.magnitudes.integers'). setLowerBound(1).setUpperBound(5).setStep(1).applyFunctor( new Functor () { public void eval (x) { return x * 2; } })) I'm simplifying, of course, I've left out the security and logging wrappers. -- Reginald Braithwait

Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it. -- Alan Kay

In theory, there’s no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is. -- Albert Einstein

I think it is wise, and only honest, to warn you that my goal is immodest. It is not my purpose to "transfer knowledge" to you that, subsequently, you can forget again. My purpose is no less than to effectuate in each of you a noticeable, irreversable change. I want you to gain, for the rest of your lives, the insight that beautiful proofs are not "found" by trial anf error but are the result of a consciously applied design discipline. I want you to raise your quality standards. I mean, if 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself "Dijkstra would not have liked this", well, that would be enough immortality for me. -- E. W. Dijkstra

Argue with idiots, and you become an idiot. If you compete with slaves you become a slave. -- Paul Graham and Norbert Weiner, respectively

Work as intensely as you play and play as intensely as you work. -- Eric S. Raymond, How To Be A Hacker

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. ~Herman Melville

Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. ~Winston Churchill

I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong. –Benjamin Franklin

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. ~Ralph Nader