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

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. -- Blaise Pascal (attributed)

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. -- Aristotle.

Revolutions come from standing on the shoulders of giants and facing in a better direction. -- Alan Kay

Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. -- Martin Golding

I had to learn how to teach less, so that more could be learned. -- Tim Gallwey, The inner game of work

You may only succeed if you desire succeeding; you may only fail if you do not mind failing. ~Philippos

We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained. –Marie Curie

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life — think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. ~Swami Vivekananda

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. ~Swami Vivekananda