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

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies, The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. -- C.S. Lewis

Good ideas are out there for anyone with the wit and the will to find them. -- Malcolm Gladwell, Who says big ideas are rare?

No one is all evil. Everybody has a good side. If you keep waiting, it will comme up. -- Randy Pausch

If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in. -- Edsger W. Dijkstra

Functional programming is to algorithms as the ubiquitous little black dress is to women's fashion. -- Mark Tarver (of "The bipolar Lisp programmer" fame)

The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it. –Chinese Proverb

Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out. ~John Wooden

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success. ~Bruce Feirstein

Dream big and dare to fail. –Norman Vaughan