When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. -- unknown

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

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

The programmer must seek both perfection of part and adequacy of collection. -- Alan J. Perlis

Chance favors the prepared mind. -- Louis Pasteur

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. -- John Lennon

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. ~Jim Ryun

It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. –Abraham Lincoln

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. –Alice Walker

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. ~Jim Ryun