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

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. -- Benjamin Franklin

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. -- Hans Hofmann

We are the sum of our behaviours; excellence therefore is not an act but a habit. -- Aristotle.

Well, if you talk about programming to a group of programmers who use the same language, they can become almost evangelistic about the language. They form a tight-knit community, hold to certain beliefs, and follow certain rules in their programming. It’s like a church with a programming language for a Bible. -- Gary Kildall (inventor of CP/M, one of the first OS for the micro).

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

Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs. –Farrah Gray

I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong. –Benjamin Franklin

Do one thing every day that scares you. ~Anonymous

You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them. ~Michael Jordan