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
It is better to be quiet and thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. -- WikiHow
State is the root of all evil. In particular functions with side effects should be avoided. -- OO Sucks (bluetail.com)
What we choose to fight is so tiny! What fights us is so great! ... When we win it's with small things, and the triumph itself makes us small. ... Winning does not tempt that man. This is how he grows: by being defeated, decisively, by constantly greater beings. -- Rainer Maria Rilke, The Man Watching.
An interpreter raises the machine to the level of the user program; a compiler lowers the user program to the level of the machine language. -- SICP
A non negative binary integer value x is a power of 2 iff (x & (x-1)) is 0 using 2's complement arithmetic. -- [fact]
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. –Helen Keller
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. ~Margaret Thatcher
Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting. ~Anonymous
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time. ~George Bernard Shaw