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

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. -- Thomas Edison

Linux is only free if your time has no value. -- Jamie Zawinski

Getting back to failing early, I've learned it's important to completely fail. Get fired. Shoot the project, then burn its corpse. Melt the CVS repository and microwave the backup CDs. When things go wrong, I've often tried to play the hero from start to finish. Guess what? Some projects are doomed no matter what. Some need skills I don't possess. And some need a fresh face. -- Reginald Braithwaite

This challenge, viz. the confrontation with the programming task, is so unique that this novel experience can teach us a lot about ourselves. It should deepen our understanding of the processes of design and creation, it should give us better control over the task of organizing our thoughts. If it did not do so, to my taste we should no deserve the computer at all! It has allready taught us a few lessons, and the one I have chosen to stress in this talk is the following. We shall do a much better programming job, provided that we approach the task with a full appreciation of its tremenduous difficulty, provided that we stick to modest and elegant programming languages, provided that we respect the intrinsec limitations of the human mind and approach the task as Very Humble Programmers. -- E. W. Dijkstra, The humble programmer

If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in. -- Edsger W. Dijkstra

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it. ~Henry Ford

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. ~Ralph Nader

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. –Henry Ford

Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see. –Confucius