Why teach drawing to accountants? Because drawing class doesn't just teach people to draw. It teaches them to be more observant. There's no company on earth that wouldn't benefit from having people become more observant. -- Randy S. Nelson (dean of Pixar University)

I would rather be an optimist and be wrong than a pessimist who proves to be right. The former sometimes wins, but never the latter. -- "Hoots"

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. -- Mark Twain

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

Good ideas are out there for anyone with the wit and the will to find them. -- Malcolm Gladwell, Who says big ideas are rare?

C and Lisp stand at opposite ends of the spectrum; they're each great at what the other one sucks at. -- Steve Yegge, Tour de Babel.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. –Booker T. Washington

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. –Arthur Ashe

Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. –Joshua J. Marine

Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable. ~Theodore N. Vail