Chance favors the prepared mind. -- Louis Pasteur

We will never become a truly paper-less society until the Palm Pilot folks come out with WipeMe 1.0. -- Andy Pierson

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

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. -- Goethe

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

Simplicity means the achievement of maximum effect with minimum means. -- Dr. Koichi Kawana

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

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter. ~Francis Chan

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. –Lao Tzu

You can’t fall if you don’t climb. But there’s no joy in living your whole life on the ground. –Unknown