We really have to get over the idea that some stuff is just worth knowing even if you never do anything with it. Human memories happily erase stuff that has no purpose, so why try to fill up children's heads with such stuff? -- Roger Schank, Engines for Education

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight. -- Bill Gates

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 I tell you I'm good, you would probably think I'm boasting. If I tell you I'm no good, you know I'm lying. -- Bruce Lee

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)

Resume writing is just like dating, or applying for a bank loan, in that nobody wants you if you're desperate. -- Steve Yegge.

Do what you can, where you are, with what you have. –Teddy Roosevelt

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

What’s the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable. ~Anonymous

Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value. ~Albert Einstein