Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. -- Mark Twain

Only bad designers blame their failings on the users. -- unknown

The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple. -- Grady Booch

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

If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in. -- Edsger W. Dijkstra

Students should be evaluated on how well they can achieve the goals they strived to achieve within a realistic context. Students need to learn to do things, not know things. -- Roger Schank, Engines for Education

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. –Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you are not willing to risk the usual you will have to settle for the ordinary. ~Jim Rohn

Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right. –Henry Ford

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