The acts of the mind, wherein it exerts its power over simple ideas, are chiefly these three: 1. Combining several simple ideas into one compound one, and thus all complex ideas are made. 2. The second is bringing two ideas, whether simple or complex, together, and setting them by one another so as to take a view of them at once, without uniting them into one, by which it gets all its ideas of relations. 3. The third is separating them from all other ideas that accompany them in their real existence: this is called abstraction, and thus all its general ideas are made. -- John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690)

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

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight. -- Bill Gates

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. -- Blaise Pascal (attributed)

Any fool can make the simple complex, only a smart person can make the complex simple. -- unknown

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. -- Blaise Pascal (attributed)

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it. ~Henry Ford

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

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

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. –Bill Cosby