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

You can have premature generalization as well as premature optimization. -- Bjarne Stroustrup

Work as intensely as you play and play as intensely as you work. -- Eric S. Raymond, How To Be A Hacker

The choice of the university is mostly important for the piece of paper you get at the end. The education you get depends on you. -- Andreas Zwinkau

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies, The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. -- C.S. Lewis

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity. And I'm not so sure about the former. -- Albert Einstein

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absense of fear. ~Mark Twain

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. –Anne Frank

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life — think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. ~Swami Vivekananda

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