Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration. -- Stan Kelly-Bootle

A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure. -- Hugh Kingsmill

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

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

Opportunities that present themselves to you are the consequence -- at least partially -- of being in the right place at the right time. They tend to present themselves when you're not expecting it -- and often when you are engaged in other activities that would seem to preclude you from pursuing them. And they come and go quickly -- if you don't jump all over an opportunity, someone else generally will and it will vanish. -- Marc Andreessen (http://blog.pmarca.com/)

The proof is by reductio ad absurdum, and reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician’s finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess gambit: a chess player may offer the sacrifice of a pawn or even a piece, but a mathematician offers the game. -- G. H. Hardy

You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction. ~George Lorimer

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing. ~Dale Carnegie

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. –Henry David Thoreau

An unexamined life is not worth living. –Socrates