Always dive down into a problem and get your hands on the deepest issue behind the problem. All other considerations are to dismissed as "engineering details"; they can be sorted out after the basic problem has been solved. -- Chris Crawford

What Paul does, and does very well, is to take ideas and concepts that are beautiful in the abstract, and brings them down to a real world level. That's a rare talent to find in writing these days. -- Jeff "hemos" Bates, Director, OSDN; Co-evolver, Slashdot

It's like a condom; I'd rather have it and not need it than need it and not have it. -- some chick in Alien vs. Predator, when asked why she always carries a gun

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. -- Arthur C. Clarke

We tend to seek easy, single-factor explanations of success. For most important things, though, success actually requires avoiding many separate causes of failure. -- Jared Diamond

Any code of your own that you haven’t looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else. -- Eagleson’s Law

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. –Amelia Earhart

The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. –Ayn Rand

Education costs money. But then so does ignorance. –Sir Claus Moser

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