A little learning is a dangerous thing. -- Alexander Pope

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

Another feature about this guy is his low threshold of boredom. He'll pick up on a task and work frantically at it, accomplishing wonders in a short time and then get bored and drop it before its properly finished. He'll do nothing but strum his guitar and lie around in bed for several days after. Thats also part of the pattern too; periods of frenetic activity followed by periods of melancholia, withdrawal and inactivity. This is a bipolar personality. -- The bipolar lisp programmer

In general, we can think of data as defined by some collection of selectors and constructors, together with specified conditions that these procedures must fulfill in order to be a valid representation. -- SICP, What is meant by data?

Never do the impossible. People will expect you to do it forever after. -- pigsandfishes.com

Ils ne sont pas forts parce qu'ils sont forts. Ils sont forts parce que nous sommes faibles. -- Ragala Khalid

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. –Benjamin Franklin

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

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. ~Eleanor Roosevelt

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice. ~Wayne Dyer