You have to write for your audience. I would never write (1..5).map &'*2' in Java when I could write ListFactoryFactory.getListFactoryFromResource( new ResourceName('com.javax.magnitudes.integers'). setLowerBound(1).setUpperBound(5).setStep(1).applyFunctor( new Functor () { public void eval (x) { return x * 2; } })) I'm simplifying, of course, I've left out the security and logging wrappers. -- Reginald Braithwait

La haine est une liqueur précieuse, un poison plus cher que celui des Borgia, - car il est fait avec notre sang, notre santé, notre sommeil, et les deux tiers de notre amour! Il faut en être avare! -- Charles Baudelaire, Conseils aux jeunes littérateurs.

An expert is, according to my working definition "someone who doesn't need to look up answers to easy questions". -- Eric Lippert.

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

It is better to be quiet and thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. -- WikiHow

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

We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained. –Marie Curie

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

If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much. ~ Jim Rohn

A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty. –Unknown