What I didn't understand was that the value of some new acquisition wasn't the difference between its retail price and what I paid for it. It was the value I derived from it. Stuff is an extremely illiquid asset. Unless you have some plan for selling that valuable thing you got so cheaply, what difference does it make what it's "worth?" The only way you're ever going to extract any value from it is to use it. And if you don't have any immediate use for it, you probably never will. -- Paul Graham

Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. -- Donald Knuth

There are two ways of constructing a software design; one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult. -- C. A. R. Hoare

Courage is grace under pressure. -- Ernest Hemingway

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

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

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. –Robert Frost

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. –Steve Jobs

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. ~Eleanor Roosevelt