The programmer must seek both perfection of part and adequacy of collection. -- Alan J. Perlis

If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as lines produced but as lines spent. -- Edsger Dijkstra

What I didn't understand was that the value of some new acquisition wasn't the difference between its retail price and what I paid for it. It was the value I derived from it. Stuff is an extremely illiquid asset. Unless you have some plan for selling that valuable thing you got so cheaply, what difference does it make what it's "worth?" The only way you're ever going to extract any value from it is to use it. And if you don't have any immediate use for it, you probably never will. -- Paul Graham

Hire people smarter than you. Work with people smarter than you. Listen to them. Let them lead you. Take the blame for all failures, give away the credit for all successes. -- How to fail: 25 secrets learned through failure

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

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

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. ~Ralph Nader

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. –Alice Walker

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.~ Oscar Wilde

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