You have to write for your audience. I would never write (1..5).map &'*2' in Java when I could write ListFactoryFactory.getListFactoryFromResource( new ResourceName('com.javax.magnitudes.integers'). setLowerBound(1).setUpperBound(5).setStep(1).applyFunctor( new Functor () { public void eval (x) { return x * 2; } })) I'm simplifying, of course, I've left out the security and logging wrappers. -- Reginald Braithwait

It's like a condom; I'd rather have it and not need it than need it and not have it. -- some chick in Alien vs. Predator, when asked why she always carries a gun

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent. -- Eleanor Roosevelt

A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer. -- Bill Gates

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

The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should therefore be regarded as a criminal offense. -- E.W. Dijkstra

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

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. – Albert Einstein

The best revenge is massive success. –Frank Sinatra

Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. ~Lolly Daskal