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

If I tell you I'm good, you would probably think I'm boasting. If I tell you I'm no good, you know I'm lying. -- Bruce Lee

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. -- Alfred North Whitehead (Introduction to Mathematics)

Photography is painting with light. -- Eric Hamilton

The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit. -- Anonymous

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. -- Benjamin Franklin

If you’re going through hell keep going. ~Winston Churchill

The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors. ~Napoleon Hill

If you do what you always did, you will get what you always got. ~Anonymous

It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings. –Ann Landers