If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough. -- Alan Kay

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

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. -- Frank Lloyd Wright

A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing. -- Alan Perlis

All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection. -- Butler Lampson

He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. -- Matthew 5:45

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. –Mark Twain

Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is. –Vince Lombardi

If you can dream it, you can achieve it. –Zig Ziglar

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life. –John Lennon