Software is like sex: It’s better when it’s free. -- Linus Torvalds

Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. -- Martin Golding

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

Philosophy: the finding of bad reasons for what one believes by instinct. -- Brave New World (paraphrased)

More computing sins are committed in the name of efficiency (without necessarily achieving it) than for any other single reason - including blind stupidity. -- W.A. Wulf

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. -- Lao­Tzu

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. –Bob Dylan

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

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. –Stephen Covey

Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. ~Anonymous