You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. -- Dr. Seuss
Do not accept anything because it comes from the mouth of a respected person. -- Buddha
It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years. -- John Von Neumann, circa 1949
To follow the path: look to the master, follow the master, walk with the master, see through the master, become the master. -- Modern zen Poem
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
The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple. -- Grady Booch
If you genuinely want something, don’t wait for it — teach yourself to be impatient. ~Gurbaksh Chahal
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Good things come to people who wait, but better things come to those who go out and get them. ~Anonymous
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. –Benjamin Franklin