Best 5 quotes of Marijn Haverbeke on MyQuotes

Higher-order functions allow us to abstract over actions, not just values.

In the happy land of elegant code and pretty rainbows, there lives a spoil-sport monster called inefficiency.

It has to become second nature, for a programmer, to notice when a concept is begging to be abstracted into a new word.

You’re building your own maze, in a way, and you might just get lost in it.

You should imagine variables as tentacles, rather than boxes. They do not contain values; they grasp them—two variables can refer to the same value.