The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public. -- Anonymous
Good coders code, great reuse. -- http://www.catonmat.net
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
Show, don't tell. -- unknown
Windows NT addresses 2 Gigabytes of RAM, which is more than any application will ever need. -- Microsoft, on the development of Windows NT, 1992
Remember, always be yourself ... unless you suck! -- Joss Whedon
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. ~Anonymous
If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough. ~Albert Einstein
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. ~Jim Ryun
Opportunities don’t happen, you create them. ~Chris Grosser