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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Any sufficiently advanced technology is undistinguishable from magic. -- Arthur C. Clarke
What I didn't understand was that the value of some new acquisition wasn't the difference between its retail price and what I paid for it. It was the value I derived from it. Stuff is an extremely illiquid asset. Unless you have some plan for selling that valuable thing you got so cheaply, what difference does it make what it's "worth?" The only way you're ever going to extract any value from it is to use it. And if you don't have any immediate use for it, you probably never will. -- Paul Graham
I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind. -- Alan Kay
All non-trivial abstractions, to some degree, are leaky. -- Joel Spolsky (The Law of Leaky Abstractions)
Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. -- Frederick P. Brooks, No Sliver Bullet.
Do one thing every day that scares you. ~Anonymous
Either you run the day, or the day runs you. –Jim Rohn
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. –Pablo Picasso
If you are not willing to risk the usual you will have to settle for the ordinary. ~Jim Rohn