Training research shows that if you get speed now you can get quality later. But if you don't get speed you will never get quality in the long run. -- Philip Greenspun

Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them. -- Alan Perlis

Do not accept anything because it comes from the mouth of a respected person. -- Buddha

Just like carpentry, measure twice cut once. -- Super-sizing YouTube with Python (Mike Solomon, [email protected])

The problem is that small examples fail to convince, and large examples are too big to follow. -- Steve Yegge.

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

Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly. ~Proverb

Good things come to people who wait, but better things come to those who go out and get them. ~Anonymous

The starting point of all achievement is desire. ~Napolean Hill

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. ~Ralph Nader