The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple. -- Grady Booch

C’s great for what it’s great for. -- Ben Hoyts (micropledge)

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

Programming is the art of figuring out what you want so precisely that even a machine can do it. -- Some guy who isn't famous

A witty saying proves nothing -- Voltaire

Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. -- Frederick P. Brooks, No Sliver Bullet.

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. ~John D. Rockefeller

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. ~Thomas Jefferson

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. –Plato

It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings. –Ann Landers