Be the change you want to see in the world. -- Mahatma Gandhi

When you’ve got the code all ripped apart, it’s like a car that’s all disassembled. You’ve got all the parts tying all over your garage and you have to replace the broken part or the car will never run. It’s not fun until the code gets back to the baseline again. -- 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

Heureux l'étudiant qui comme la Rivière peut suivre son cours sans quitter son lit... -- Sebastien, sur commentcamarche.net

A person won't retain proficiency at a task unless he or she has at one time learned to perform that task very rapidly. Learning research demonstrates that the skills of people who become accurate but not fast deteriorate much sooner than the skills of people who become both accurate and fast. -- Philip Greenspun

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. -- John Lennon

Education costs money. But then so does ignorance. –Sir Claus Moser

If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on. –Sheryl Sandberg

Fortune sides with him who dares. ~Virgil

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. –Steve Jobs