Des mots simples, quand ils sont bien utilisés, font faire à des gens ordinaires des choses extraordinaires. -- Khaled TANGAO

Rules of Optimization: Rule 1: Don’t do it. Rule 2 (for experts only): Don’t do it yet. -- M.A. Jackson

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

Simple things should be simple. Complex things should be possible. -- Alan Kay

If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough. -- Alan Kay

Code is poetry. -- wordpress.org

There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. –Aristotle

All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. ~Walt Disney

There are no traffic jams along the extra mile. –Roger Staubach

Successful entrepreneurs are givers and not takers of positive energy. ~Anonymous