Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. -- Martin Golding

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

An expert is, according to my working definition "someone who doesn't need to look up answers to easy questions". -- Eric Lippert.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. -- Colin Powell

The best way to learn to live with our limitations is to know them. --E. W. Dijkstra, The humble programmer

There is one meaning [for static in C]: a global variable that is invisible outside the current scope, be it a function or a file. -- Paolo Bonzini

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

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter. ~Francis Chan

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

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. –Martin Luther King Jr.