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

Another feature about this guy is his low threshold of boredom. He'll pick up on a task and work frantically at it, accomplishing wonders in a short time and then get bored and drop it before its properly finished. He'll do nothing but strum his guitar and lie around in bed for several days after. Thats also part of the pattern too; periods of frenetic activity followed by periods of melancholia, withdrawal and inactivity. This is a bipolar personality. -- The bipolar lisp programmer

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

1 - Creativity and innovation always build on the past. 2 - The past always tries to control the creativity that builds on it. 3 - Free societies enable the future by limiting the past. 4 - Ours is less and less a free society. -- Lawrence Lessig, Free Culture.

If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as *lines produced* but as *lines spent*. -- Edsger Dijkstra

If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution. -- Robert Sewell

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. –Pablo Picasso

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

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. ~Ralph Nader

Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions. –Dalai Lama