Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity. And I'm not so sure about the former. -- Albert Einstein

It is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead. -- Edsger Dijkstra

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for. -- Greek philosopher Epicurus

The best programmers are not marginally better than merely good ones. They are an order-of-magnitude better, measured by whatever standard: conceptual creativity, speed, ingenuity of design, or problem-solving ability. -- Randall E. Stross

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

C++ is history repeated as tragedy. Java is history repeated as farce. -- Scott McKay

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. –Benjamin Franklin

Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. –Joshua J. Marine

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

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. –Confucius