Something Confusing about "Hard": It's tempting to think that if it's hard, then it's valuable. Most valuable things are hard. Most hard things are completely useless -- (picture of someone smashing their head through concrete blocks kung-fu style). Hard DOES NOT EQUATE TO BEING valuable. Remember Friendster back in the day? You'd sign in, invite friends, have 25 friends, go to their profile, and then it'd show how you were connected to each one. That's an impressive [some geeky CS jargon] Cone traversal of a tree - 100 million string comparisons per page -- it won't scale. Used to take a minute per page to load, and Friendster died a painful death. MySpace -- not interested in solving problems They use the shortcut of "Miss Fitzpatrick is in your extended network" (i.e. even when you're not even signed up for MySpace) They didn't solve the hard problem. But they make the more relevant assumption that you want to be connected to hot women. [LOL] Shows Alexa graph showing that in early 2005 Myspace took off, and quickly bypassed Friendster and never looked back. -- Max Levchin, PayPal founder, Talk at StartupSchool2007

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

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. -- Friedrich Nietzsche

Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. -- Thomas Edison

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832)

A guideline in the process of stepwise refinement should be the principle to decompose decisions as much as possible, to untangle aspects which are only seemingly interdependent, and to defer those decisions which concern details of representation as long as possible. -- Niklaus Wirth

If you want to achieve greatness stop asking for permission. ~Anonymous

Life isn't about getting and having, it's about giving and being. –Kevin Kruse

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it. ~Washington Irving

It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. –Abraham Lincoln