The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. -- Arthur C. Clarke

Functional programming is like describing your problem to a mathematician. Imperative programming is like giving instructions to an idiot. -- arcus, #scheme on Freenode

The Work Begins Anew, The Hope Rises Again, And The Dream Lives On. -- Ted Kennedy

We tend to seek easy, single-factor explanations of success. For most important things, though, success actually requires avoiding many separate causes of failure. -- Jared Diamond

No matter how much you plan you’re likely to get half wrong anyway. So don’t do the ‘paralysis through analysis’ thing. That only slows progress and saps morale. -- 37 Signal, Getting real

Premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming. -- Donald Knuth

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. –Alice Walker

If you’re going through hell keep going. ~Winston Churchill

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I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing. ~Martha Stewart