Functional programming is to algorithms as the ubiquitous little black dress is to women's fashion. -- Mark Tarver (of "The bipolar Lisp programmer" fame)

Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter. -- Eric Raymond

It’s hard to grasp abstractions if you don’t understand what they’re abstracting away from. -- Nathan Weizenbaum

Programming is the art of figuring out what you want so precisely that even a machine can do it. -- Some guy who isn't famous

A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer. -- Bill Gates

State is the root of all evil. In particular functions with side effects should be avoided. -- OO Sucks (bluetail.com)

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. ~Anonymous

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. –Michael Jordan

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. –Bill Cosby

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. –Ralph Waldo Emerson