The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. -- Benjamin Franklin

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

When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. -- unknown

Any code of your own that you haven’t looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else. -- Eagleson’s Law

To iterate is human, to recurse divine. -- L. Peter Deutsch

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

People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily. –Zig Ziglar

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough. ~Albert Einstein

The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it. –Chinese Proverb

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne