hack to learn

Don't learn to hack..
hack to learn
-- online underground community

ps. look at babies. they don't learn to walk, they walk to learn instead.
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byproducts

financial gains are simply byproducts of a good process improvement.

-- wikipedia, "six sigma"

similarly, children are byproducts of "in the moment" sex.

thoughtful

I have been interested in "scripting language" since 2005. scripting language is a computer programming language which computer use to interpret text files. For example, google uses PERL and PYTHON to interpret and manage search results and streamline the whole search process, manage websites, etc. I am interested in it because in my research I need to process computed data as well, and my favorite is PYTHON. Here is a poem that is written in a python book, which I found thoughtful. And of course, thoughtful is better than ignorance.

Beautiful is better than ugly.
Explicit is better than implicit.
Simple is better than complex.
Complex is better than complicated.
Flat is better than nested.
Sparse is better than dense.
Readability counts.
Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules.
Although practicality beats purity.
Errors should never pass silently.
Unless explicitly silenced.
In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess.
There should be one - and preferably only one - obvious way to do it.
Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you're Dutch.
Now is better than never.
Although never is often better than RIGHT now.
If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad idea.
If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a good idea.
Namespaces are one honking great idea - let's do more of those!

- Tim Peters, "The Zen of Python"

NINJA

NINJA - No Income No Job or Assets

-- online forum

restroom graffiti

The only way to achieve greatness is to remember that everything you do will be forgotten. And not care.

-- restroom graffiti in the Cups coffee shop

marriage

It's not fight that causes divorce; stopping fight and shunning away from communication do.

-- radio, "intelligence and music for your life"

requirements for a success

Success is a function of talents (inborn abilities) and skills (acquired competencies). No amount of emotional self-control can turn a person into a successful musician, football player, or trader. Once individuals possess the requisite talents and skills for success, however, then psychological factors become important. Psychology dictates how consistent you are with the skills and talents you have; it cannot replace those skills and talents.

-- Brett N. Steenbarger, Ph.D.

Mark Twain

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
-- Mark Twain

George Stobbart

"Sometimes I got the feeling that communication with Pearl was like sending signals out into space,
maybe if you waited long enough you`d get an intelligent answer back,but it was a long shot."
------ George Stobbart