Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time-rich and cash-poor.
When in trouble or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.
If you want to double your success rate, triple your failure rate.
Face-book has all the social graces of a nose-picking, hyperactive six-year-old, standing at the threshold of your attention and chanting, “I know something, I know something, I know something, won’t tell you what it is!
A number is random if the simplest way to express it is by writing it down.
Sysadmins don’t take holidays.
When you teach your students that it’s “economically rational” to commit crimes where the fines for misconduct are lower than the expected return on the crime, you instill a professional ethic that has no room for morals.
Write even when the world is chaotic. You don’t need a cigarette, silence, music, a comfortable chair, or inner peace to write. You just need ten minutes and a writing implement.
Universal access to human knowledge is in our grasp, for the first time in the history of the world. This is not a bad thing.
The fact is, almost everything you do is collaborative. Somewhere out there, someone else had a hand it it.
We don’t care about what you did yesterday – we care about what you’re going to do tomorrow.