Lisp is worth learning for the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it; that experience will make you a better programmer for the rest of your days, even if you never actually use Lisp itself a lot. -- Eric S. Raymond

Good artists copy. Great artists steal. -- Pablo Picasso

Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. -- Cited by Randy Pausch

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

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

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil. -- Cicero

Successful entrepreneurs are givers and not takers of positive energy. ~Anonymous

The best revenge is massive success. –Frank Sinatra

Fall seven times and stand up eight. –Japanese Proverb

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