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

An expert is, according to my working definition "someone who doesn't need to look up answers to easy questions". -- Eric Lippert.

Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed. -- George Burns

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. -- Thomas Edison

Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams. -- Mary Ellen Kelly

Give up control. You never really had it anyway. -- How to fail: 25 secrets learned through failure

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. –Maya Angelou

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. ~Anonymous

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

Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. ~John R. Wooden