Humans aren't rational -- they rationalize. And I don't just mean "some of them" or "other people". I'm talking about everyone. We have a "logic engine" in our brains, but for the most part, it's not the one in the driver's seat -- instead it operates after the fact, generating rationalizations and excuses for our behavior. -- Paul Buchheit

Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve. -- Alan J. Perlis (Epigrams in programmi ng)

C++ is like teenage sex: Everybody is talking about it all the time, only few are really doing it. -- unknown

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

J'ai toujours préféré la folie des passions à la sagesse de l'indifférence. -- Anatole France

My dream is that people adopt it on its own merits. We're not trying to bend Ruby on Rails to fit the enterprise, we're encouraging enterprises to bend to Ruby on Rails. Come if you like it, stay away if you don't. We're not going head over heels to accommodate the enterprise or to lure them away from Java. That's how you end up with Java, if you start bending to special interest groups. -- David Heinemeier Hansson (Ruby On Rails' creator)

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. –Maya Angelou

The starting point of all achievement is desire. ~Napolean Hill

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

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. ~Eleanor Roosevelt