Act from reason, and failure makes you rethink and study harder. Act from faith, and failure makes you blame someone and push harder. -- Erik Naggum

The minute you put the blame on someone else you’ve switch things from being a problem you can control to a problem outside of your control. -- engtech (internetducttape.com)

If I tell you I'm good, you would probably think I'm boasting. If I tell you I'm no good, you know I'm lying. -- Bruce Lee

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

An interpreter raises the machine to the level of the user program; a compiler lowers the user program to the level of the machine language. -- SICP

To iterate is human, to recurse divine. -- L. Peter Deutsch

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear. –Rosa Parks

The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it. –Chinese Proverb

Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. ~Lolly Daskal

You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. –Christopher Columbus