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

Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming. -- Brian Kernigan

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

It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years. -- John Von Neumann, circa 1949

Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them. -- Alan Perlis

The lesson of the story might appear to be that self-interested and ambitious people in power are often the cause of wastefulness in developing countries. But self-interested and ambitious people are in positions of power, great and small, all over the world. In many places, they are restrained by the law, the press, and democratic opposition. Cameroon's tragedy is that there is nothing to hold self-interest in check. -- Tim Harford

If you genuinely want something, don’t wait for it — teach yourself to be impatient. ~Gurbaksh Chahal

What’s the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable. ~Anonymous

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. ~Vidal Sassoon

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. – Albert Einstein