In theory, there’s no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is. -- Albert Einstein

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

Always dive down into a problem and get your hands on the deepest issue behind the problem. All other considerations are to dismissed as "engineering details"; they can be sorted out after the basic problem has been solved. -- Chris Crawford

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

And if you go too far up, abstraction-wise, you run out of oxygen. Sometimes smart thinkers just don't know when to stop, and they create these absurd, all-encompassing, high-level pictures of the universe that are all good and fine, but don't actually mean anything at all. -- Joel Spolsky

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. -- Sherlock Holmes

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. –Mark Twain

To be successful you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can’t just accept the ones you like. ~Mike Gafka

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. –Les Brown

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. –Grandma Moses