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

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

You have to write for your audience. I would never write (1..5).map &'*2' in Java when I could write ListFactoryFactory.getListFactoryFromResource( new ResourceName('com.javax.magnitudes.integers'). setLowerBound(1).setUpperBound(5).setStep(1).applyFunctor( new Functor () { public void eval (x) { return x * 2; } })) I'm simplifying, of course, I've left out the security and logging wrappers. -- Reginald Braithwait

Good programmers use their brains, but good guidelines save us having to think out every case. -- Francis Glassborow

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent. -- Eleanor Roosevelt

I was talking recently to a friend who teaches at MIT. His field is hot now and every year he is inundated by applications from would-be graduate students. "A lot of them seem smart," he said. "What I can't tell is whether they have any kind of taste." -- Paul Graham

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. ~Truman Capote

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. –Steve Jobs

When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. –Helen Keller

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself. ~Mark Caine