We now come to the decisive step of mathematical abstraction: we forget about what the symbols stand for. ...[The mathematician] need not be idle; there are many operations which he may carry out with these symbols, without ever having to look at the things they stand for. -- Hermann Weyl, The Mathematical Way of Thinking

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 job of a leader today is not to create followers. It’s to create more leaders. -- Ralph Nader

It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission. -- Rear Admiral Dr. Grace Hopper

The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit. -- Anonymous

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

To be successful you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can’t just accept the ones you like. ~Mike Gafka

Do what you can, where you are, with what you have. –Teddy Roosevelt

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. –Ralph Waldo Emerson

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. ~Swami Vivekananda