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

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity. And I'm not so sure about the former. -- Albert Einstein

Good coders code, great reuse. -- http://www.catonmat.net

More computing sins are committed in the name of efficiency (without necessarily achieving it) than for any other single reason - including blind stupidity. -- W.A. Wulf

I think the root of your mistake is saying that macros don't scale to larger groups. The real truth is that macros don't scale to stupider groups. -- Paul Graham, on the Lightweight Languages mailing list.

Do not accept anything because it comes from the mouth of a respected person. -- Buddha

Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock and the door will be opened for you. –Jesus

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. –Maya Angelou

We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained. –Marie Curie

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. –Chinese Proverb