Abstraction is a form of data compression: absolutely necessary, because human short-term memory is so small, but the critically important aspect of abstraction is the algorithm that gets you from the name back to the "uncompressed" details. -- Bruce Wilder (blog post comment)

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

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. -- Blaise Pascal (attributed)

Lisp programmers know the value of everything but the cost of nothing. -- Alan J. Perlis

You will never become a Great Programmer until you acknowledge that you will always be a Terrible Programmer. You will remain a Great Programmer for only as long as you acknowledge that you are still a Terrible Programmer. -- Marc (http://kickin-the-darkness.blogspot.com/)

The hardest part of design ... is keeping features out. -- Donald Norman

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

You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals. ~Booker T. Washington

You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame. –Erica Jong

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see. ~Anonymous