If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution. -- Robert Sewell

Training research shows that if you get speed now you can get quality later. But if you don't get speed you will never get quality in the long run. -- Philip Greenspun

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

The proof is by reductio ad absurdum, and reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician’s finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess gambit: a chess player may offer the sacrifice of a pawn or even a piece, but a mathematician offers the game. -- G. H. Hardy

Do you want to sell sugared water all your life or do you want to change the world? -- Steve Jobs, to John Sculley (former Pepsi executive)

Show, don't tell. -- unknown

If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money. –Abigail Van Buren

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others. ~Bill Gates

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it. ~Washington Irving

Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right. –Henry Ford