In terms of energy, it's better to make a wrong choice than none at all. -- George Leonard, Mastery.

A person won't retain proficiency at a task unless he or she has at one time learned to perform that task very rapidly. Learning research demonstrates that the skills of people who become accurate but not fast deteriorate much sooner than the skills of people who become both accurate and fast. -- Philip Greenspun

Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming. -- Brian Kernigan

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

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

The only constant in the world of hi-tech is change. -- Mark Ward

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. –Grandma Moses

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. –Robert Frost

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. –Bill Cosby

The mind is everything. What you think you become. –Buddha