PI seconds is a nanocentury. -- [fact]

What do Americans look for in a car? I've heard many answers when I've asked this question. The answers include excellent safety ratings, great gas mileage, handling, and cornering ability, among others. I don't believe any of these. That's because the first principle of the Culture Code is that the only effective way to understand what people truly mean is to ignore what they say. This is not to suggest that people intentionally lie or misrepresent themselves. What it means is that, when asked direct questions about their interests and preferences, people tend to give answers they believe the questioner wants to hear. Again, this is not because they intend to mislead. It is because people respond to these questions with their cortexes, the parts of their brains that control intelligence rather than emotion or instinct. They ponder a question, they process a question, and when they deliver an answer, it is the product of deliberation. They believe they are telling the truth. A lie detector would confirm this. In most cases, however, they aren't saying what they mean. -- The culture code.

The best is the enemy of the good. -- Voltaire

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity. And I'm not so sure about the former. -- Albert Einstein

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. -- Thomas Jefferson

First learn computer science and all the theory. Next develop a programming style. Then forget all that and just hack. -- George Carrette

The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same. ~Colin R. Davis

Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly. ~Proverb

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. –Latin Proverb

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time. ~George Bernard Shaw