Today I plan to smile a lot, only so people who know me will be freaked the fuck out.
We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software.
A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem....
It was an emergency!" Seth blurted. "Read my lips - emergency reading - not some demented idea of fun. If I was starving, I would eat asparagus. If somebody held a gun to my head, I would watch a soap...
It is no accident that the words discipline and disciple resemble each other in the English language. The most common word in the Gospels for a Christian is disciple.
Instead of being regarded as intelligent or knowledgeable, many a woman would rather be regarded as beautiful or good in the kitchen; many a man, as handsome or good in bed.
The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.
Beware ! Discipline goes to two different directions : success and self glory. Self glory is the biggest failure of life.
Even now I remember those pictures, like pictures in a storybook one loved as a child. Radiant meadows, mountains vaporous in the trembling distance; leaves ankle-deep on a gusty autumn road; bonfires...
If you caress me one more time, you will melt the butter on my toast.
There is no fortitude like patience, just as there is no destructive emotion worse than hatred.