This document discusses the key principles of functional programming including: 1) Expression-oriented programming with functions treated as first-class citizens that are composed to build new functions. 2) Programming with immutable values rather than mutable state to avoid side effects. 3) Leveraging higher-order functions and behavior-rich containers to preserve data structures and allow parallelization. 4) Focusing on simplicity, composability, and structure-preserving operations to build programs in a declarative rather than imperative style.