The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public. -- Anonymous
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
In God I trust; I will not be afraid. What can mortal man do to me? -- David (Psalm 56:4)
Measure everything you can about the product, and you'll start seeing patterns. -- Max Levchin, PayPal founder, Talk at StartupSchool2007
Simplicity means the achievement of maximum effect with minimum means. -- Dr. Koichi Kawana
Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. -- Frederick P. Brooks, No Sliver Bullet.
It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live. –Mae Jemison
The best revenge is massive success. –Frank Sinatra
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. –Lao Tzu
A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty. –Unknown