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

Good work is no done by ‘humble’ men. -- H. Hardy, A mathematician's apology.

Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve. -- Alan J. Perlis (Epigrams in programmi ng)

The good thing about reinventing the wheel is that you get a round one. -- Douglas Crockford (Author of JSON and JsLint)

To iterate is human, to recurse divine. -- L. Peter Deutsch

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

I would rather die of passion than of boredom. –Vincent van Gogh

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. ~Thomas Jefferson

Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. –George Addair

The best reason to start an organization is to make meaning; to create a product or service to make the world a better place. ~Guy Kawasaki