Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. -- Cited by Randy Pausch

Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called an engineering discipline. -- Bill Clinton

It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration. -- Edsger Dijkstra

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. -- Rush (Freewill)

Another feature about this guy is his low threshold of boredom. He'll pick up on a task and work frantically at it, accomplishing wonders in a short time and then get bored and drop it before its properly finished. He'll do nothing but strum his guitar and lie around in bed for several days after. Thats also part of the pattern too; periods of frenetic activity followed by periods of melancholia, withdrawal and inactivity. This is a bipolar personality. -- The bipolar lisp programmer

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

You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. –Christopher Columbus

You become what you believe. –Oprah Winfrey

Knowledge is being aware of what you can do. Wisdom is knowing when not to do it. ~Anonymous

You can’t fall if you don’t climb. But there’s no joy in living your whole life on the ground. –Unknown