Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. -- Martin Golding
There are many ways to avoid success in life, but the most sure-fire just might be procrastination. -- Hara Estroff Marano.
There really is no learning without doing. -- Roger Schank, Engines for Education
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
Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. -- Thomas Edison
La connaissance d'un défaut ne l'enlève pas, elle nous torture jusqu'à sa correction. -- Daniel Lovewin (Guillaume Kpotufe)
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A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty. –Unknown
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success. ~Bruce Feirstein
Change your thoughts and you change your world. –Norman Vincent Peale