The good thing about reinventing the wheel is that you get a round one. -- Douglas Crockford (Author of JSON and JsLint)

Simplicity means the achievement of maximum effect with minimum means. -- Dr. Koichi Kawana

Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter. -- Eric Raymond

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

Lisp is a programmable programming language. -- John Foderaro

If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough. -- Mario Andretti

Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. ~Lolly Daskal

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. –Amelia Earhart

The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors. ~Napoleon Hill

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. –Chinese Proverb