Mistakes were made. -- Ronald Reagan
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
Good artists copy. Great artists steal. -- Pablo Picasso
Lisp programmers know the value of everything but the cost of nothing. -- Alan J. Perlis
J'ai toujours préféré la folie des passions à la sagesse de l'indifférence. -- Anatole France
Only make new mistakes. -- Phil Dourado
In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it. ~Jane Smiley
The mind is everything. What you think you become. –Buddha
No masterpiece was ever created by a lazy artist.~ Anonymous
You may only succeed if you desire succeeding; you may only fail if you do not mind failing. ~Philippos