Premature abstraction is an equally grevious sin as premature optimization. -- Keith Devens

Only bad designers blame their failings on the users. -- unknown

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

Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. -- Donald Knuth

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

Humans differ from animals to the degree that they are not merely an end result of their conditioning, but are able to reflect on their experiences and strategies, and apply insight to make changes in the way they live to modify the outcome. -- SlideTrombone (comment on "Programming can ruin your life")

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. –Benjamin Franklin

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. –Arthur Ashe

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement. –W. Clement Stone

It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. –Abraham Lincoln