Functional programming is like describing your problem to a mathematician. Imperative programming is like giving instructions to an idiot. -- arcus, #scheme on Freenode

Talkers are no good doers. -- William Shakespeare, "Henry VI"

The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise. -- Edsger Dijkstra

First learn computer science and all the theory. Next develop a programming style. Then forget all that and just hack. -- George Carrette

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. -- Frank Lloyd Wright

The only thing a man should ever be 100% convinced of is his own ignorance. -- DJ MacLean

Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs. –Farrah Gray

Successful entrepreneurs are givers and not takers of positive energy. ~Anonymous

I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. ~Diane Ackerman

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