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

Good programmers use their brains, but good guidelines save us having to think out every case. -- Francis Glassborow

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

A hacker on a roll may be able to produce–in a period of a few months–something that a small development group (say, 7-8 people) would have a hard time getting together over a year. IBM used to report that certain programmers might be as much as 100 times as productive as other workers, or more. -- Peter Seebach

The general principle for complexity design is this: Think locally, act locally. -- Richard P. Gabriel & Ron Goldman, Mob Software: The Erotic Life of Code

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies, The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. -- C.S. Lewis

We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained. –Marie Curie

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

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. ~Jim Ryun

Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable. ~Theodore N. Vail