If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. -- Mark Twain

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

Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called an engineering discipline. -- Bill Clinton

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. -- Goethe

A person won't become proficient at something until he or she has done it many times. In other words., if you want someone to be really good at building a software system, he or she will have to have built 10 or more systems of that type. -- Philip Greenspun

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. -- Alfred North Whitehead (Introduction to Mathematics)

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

Successful entrepreneurs are givers and not takers of positive energy. ~Anonymous

When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid. ~Audre Lorde

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. –Steve Jobs