Before enlightenment, chop wood and carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood and carry water. -- Ancient Eastern adage

All great things require great dedication. -- Chuck Norris(?)

The job of a leader today is not to create followers. It’s to create more leaders. -- Ralph Nader

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. -- Thomas Jefferson

XML wasn't designed to be edited by humans on a regular basis. -- Guido van Rossum

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

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. –Arthur Ashe

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. ~Dale Carnegie

The best reason to start an organization is to make meaning; to create a product or service to make the world a better place. ~Guy Kawasaki

What’s the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable. ~Anonymous