"“If they’re talking to you, you have leverage.”" - Christopher Voss, FBI Negotiator
I disapprove of hiding your personal information from the world, but I will defend to the death our users' right to do so.
What is this whole game for but to sit down at the end of the day with a cigar and a whisky and to know that you're on top of the world.
Music has superceded religion as the opiate of the masses.
I waive all liability; just fuck off.
Facebook has been roundly accused of silently eroding its users' personal privacy since its inception, and rightly so; its privacy policy has moved from proclaiming protection and tight restrictions on who can view your data, to lauding openness and, by default, sharing your information with a growing swathe of people and applications. their policy, however, has a lot to say for itself; whilst privacy is import for many people and must be openly provided and rigidly enforced by any company wishing to be privy to people's personal data, many of Facebook's critics object loudly and vocally to its moves based on a preconceived and ill-considered notion of the interest of their data. There are plenty of people interested in gaining access to it, and offering wonderful services that rely upon it, but evidence of the detrimental effects of information sharing is almost non-existent. They speak vainly of "stalkers" and the invasions of their privacy but the reality is, nobody cares. These insinuations stem from a misguided impression that their personal data is of some deep interest to malicious parties that want to harm them; apart from celebrities and those who rely on the laughable "security" of their mother's maiden name, we all have a much stronger shield of privacy than anything technology can enforce: the world's complete disinterest and indifference to the tedious minutia of our personal lives.
Accusing social networks and advert targeting software of reading your personal information is like accusing motion detecting toilet flushes of watching you piss.
You see yourself as you want to be, your friends see you as you've always been, only strangers see you as you are.
"It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time." - Sir Winston Churchill
"We won't be signing off until the world ends. We will be on, and we will cover the end of the world, live, and that will be our last event.... and when the end of the world comes, we will play 'Nearer, my God, to Thee' before we sign off." - Ted Turner
"Writers are, in a way, very powerful indeed. They write the script for the reality film. Kerouac opened a million coffee bars and sold a million pairs of Levis to both sexes. Woodstock rises from his pages. Now if writers could get together into a real tight union, we'd have the world right by the words. We could write our own universes, and they would be as real as a coffee bar or a pair of Levis or a prom in the Jazz Age. Writers could take over the reality studio. So they must not be allowed to find out that they can make it happen. Kerouac understood long before I did. Life is a dream, he said." - William S Burroughs
I've always said that ideas weren't important, it was all about execution. It turns out I was wrong. If you have execution but no ideas, you create really well-done absolutely useless products. Check out staircase3.
Living in a village is like being part of a cult except, instead of religion, you have Budgens.
A method for project planning, bug fixing, automatic documentation and prevention of feature creep within collaborative software projects. A shared directory structure exists (e.g. on dropbox) with a root directory for the entire project and sub-directories for each developer. Within these directories, further sub-directories are created for each feature, bug-fix etc using descriptive names, prepended with the numerical importance of the feature, 1-5. Within these directories are documents describing the feature/bug and/or sub directories, named in the same way, for sub-features. Anyone can add a new feature/bug to any folder. On completion of a particular feature/bug the developer prepends its name with the word COMPLETE and the current date in format yy-mm-dd. Now, in order to find the next thing that they have to do, all a developer has to do is go to their folder and sort by name, descending and the most important new pieces of work will appear at the top. To see what work a developer has been doing, do the same and scroll down until the complete folders appear, in reverse chronological order, all the feature descriptions are still available. Feature creep is prevented by assigning ideas that you want to keep on the back burner low priority ratings so they are always there (and their descriptions can be augmented) but they don't get worked on until either the developer has nothing else to do or their priority is increased. This system requires NO extra software to implement and has a very short learning curve.
People still don't change.
If you've got lots of different methods of solving a problem, each of which is flawed, but there is *some* correlation between how they deviate from the absolute truth, can combining their results still provide a more accurate estimate (than any one of them, than a random one of them, than the average of them)? Has been applied to clocks before so there should be plenty of background material available. Could usefully be applied to machine learning algorithms, has this been done?
People don't change.
So if you want to be an entrepreneur in the social sphere but you don't know what you want to do you need to find an environment where everybody is involved in socialising and preferably has money and just concentrate solely on facilitating it. London? California? Florida? Get a group of you, for them it could just be socialising, you just need support.
If there's one thing I refuse to do it's to die of something mundane.
They say the time you spend at uni will be the best years of your life. For most people they're right. Most people leave university and settle down, marry, get a job, security, 9 to 5, a morning paper and a house in the suburbs. Some of us don't want to do that, certainly not yet. We want success, but we want to live, we want money, but we want freedom.
In software, if you've got to fail, do it quietly but NEVER silently. In life there's nothing wrong with silence.
Playlist auto-grow function that grows the playlist automatically as you listen to it so that if you keep listening to the same playlist on a loop you don't just end up hearing the same songs over and over again.
Make a version of thekplayer that doesn't involve signing in and starts with the UK top 100 as the playlist. Edit: Since Vevo and youtube's clampdown we've got to move away from mainstream and pop; get a different source of music but keep the idea; underground hip-hop, house, DnB, Electro, find someone who loves this stuff and let them use it as their canvas.
Hide and speak
iphone app that replaces poker chips
Look at rooftop spaces in balham, for instance above the bank, would they make good locations for bars/restaurants/coffee shops? would we get planning permission? Would this idea work anywhere else?
Create a web application that finds places where the weather is unreliable but that have a good two day forecast, finds the cheapest last-minute flight to them from the user's current location and allows the user to buy the flight (and optionally a hotel) in *one click* so you can organise a weekend away to somewhere unusual at lunch on Friday. Machine Learning :D
Why are english people so terrified of the ice breaker? Why are we so cynical and defensive? Is this an issue that can be considered in isolation or is it part of something larger?
The whole idea of socialising is a game played through different media (dancing, talking, drinking, smoking): engaging in the media has to be, in itself, enjoyable so that, whether or not any advances are made (whether social or sexual) people can enjoy the experience or, at least, pretend, both to themselves and others, that they have. The benchmark of a good medium (or mix of media, social space e.g. bars, clubs etc) is that it provides high levels of inherent enjoyment whilst also facilitating easy and prolific advances of either a sexual or social nature and that it is not significantly damaging to health.
Part of the reason that people young people socially smoke in London is because it allows you the opportunity to go outside from a club, into the fresh air, where the music is quieter (or non-existent) and talk. What's more groups outside will tend to be smaller and more mobile since smoking is quick and temporary and, because of this, and the easy ice breaker (can I borrow a light/fag?) it's a good way for people to socialise outside of the people they arrived with. Since many people are prepared to ignore the significant anti-smoking propaganda that they are, and have been since an early age, bombarded with for this social effect it must be a very attractive prospect. How could this be used to provide a different medium for socialising or augment the current media?
Mashup youtube with lastfm using thekplayer's engine but the same model as Richard Dawkins' selfish gene program, with several choices at each stage about which song to pick next. Will work especially well with scrobble functionality since not only will the music you're listening to at the moment be improving but also your library will collect all the songs that you listen to on the way.
How do you play a game that you love to play but hate to win? Relationships
"Do other men, for they would do you." - Charles Dickens - A motto for the weak and afraid?
How do we make sure that companies pay? how do we know when they've employed someone?
A genius is just a smart man with a notebook.
It is in the facilitation of social interaction that a businessman can most earn, influence and enjoy since this is the fabric of society and pervades everything of interest. cigarettes, alcohol, light meals, mobiles, social networks. all of these provide fertile arenas for profitable, powerful business except the meals, why is this? does it not lend itself to centralisation? does it rely on the character and involvement of the proprietor? can this be abstracted?
"Why does a weak person need to latch on to a strong person?" - Fight Club
Drug use just to experience the effect of the drug is a bit like going to a theme park, it can be great fun but it's not a significant part of life. Any really interesting drug has to be used to facilitate or improve other activities in life.
Is the drug trade as violent as the media like to make out? There are media reports of murders within the drug trafficking world but are these just blown out of proportion in the usual Daily Mail way or is it actually a significant concern?
Would the popular production of the devices described below cause me to get shot? Since it would decrease the amount that dealers could cut their product, it would also decrease dealers' profits, which could reduce the value of the entire drug trade. On the other hand, since the whole process would become safer and more transparent, it could increase the general market for cocaine and thereby increase the value of the trade. One could get me shot, the other could get me put in jail, this had better be worthwhile.
People are DYING because of drug prohibition.
What is it that allows some immensely difficult projects, that often require huge investment of time and money, to be completed quickly and efficiently merely because they were theoretically possible whilst others languish and die even though they appear easy? Passion? Wealth?Large interested parties? Small deeply interested parties?
How can we apply route finding and mapping/tracking software to the drug trade and anti-drug law enforcement? Which of these would it be morally justifiable for me to aid and in what ways?
The advertising for the below would be easy, cocaine and methamphetamine users tend to have large disposable incomes and, we can assume, are reasonably intelligent. The only crucial thing would be to ensure that the device remained legal to use, would require some very in depth legal analysis to ensure that any advertising material stayed above the legal threshold. That said, there are an estimated 1.5 million cocaine users in the united states alone so any entrance into this market could be extremely lucrative.
Device for cheap, easy testing of the purity of cocaine, methamphetamines etc. Almost certainly isn't illegal, could be very lucrative and, crucially, could revolutionise the drug industry. Since consumers could check the quality of what they were sold, all drugs would have to increase in quality, so it would have many of the same effects as legalising drugs, increasing consumer understanding and decreasing fatalities and unpleasant side effects that are largely caused by misunderstanding and impurities. Many of the things cocaine is cut with (apart from the cheap, pointless, bulk-builders like sugar) have much worse side effects than the cocaine itself, in fact cocaine itself is generally considered to be safer than alcohol, so if you could be certain it was pure, it would prevent many unnecessary deaths. Even cutting cocaine with sugar can lead to fatalities since people learn their tolerance and the "accepted dose" on impure cocaine (which, on the street, is usually only 50% pure, and can be as dilute as 5% pure) and then, if they receive something that's much purer (or even has more active impurities, say methamphetamines rather than sugar) then they can easily overdose without ever knowing that they were taking more than they normally would. More information could solve all of this. Of course, the easiest way to control this would be through legalisation, but in the mean time we can prevent pointless deaths by increasing understanding and free information.
Is there a viable business in providing a central playlist store that can be accessed from any media player? So you can have your own library of music stored on the web, and it doesn't matter how you choose to actually get access to the music itself, it just stores what tracks ought to be there.
http://xkcd.com/103/
Write a kindle app to allow virtual book burning ;) (could this extend to the iPhone? Less amusing but more lucrative)
Any problem that an open road and a bottle of whiskey can't cure, they can make you forget.
Is it worthwhile building an online ordering system for bring booze / whatever this is going to become? Remember online ordering also allows us to tie in marketing through social media so there is intrinsic added value for *us* as well as the customer.
Imagine a search bar for the real world, you type in Mars Bar, and it gives you a map of places you could go to get one, or offers you delivery from anywhere. Start off in Oxford, all you need is the menu of every restaurant. Monetization: you can sell delivery companies each order.
There is nothing in this world that so makes me question the existence of God as an ugly girl who looks attractive from behind.
A crime carried out on a large enough scale can supersede the law.
Make people feel like they found out about your product rather than you told them about it, they're much more likely to convert if they think they were being proactive.
Abstract away from this delivery problem, it's about goods with current and desired locations. It's a mapping between sets of timestamped locations. All we need to do is reduce the problem to an efficient marketplace and allow people to efficiently move the goods and the associated money.
Does an english-chinese version of the english-french wordreference.com exist? I know wordreference can do english-chinese but it doesn't have the wealth of backing information that the english-french version does, could be a very lucrative opportunity.
Don't hide behind a number: reverse lookup
Got time on your hands? Read Les Maximes by Francois de la Rochefoucauld; interesting and good for your French. It's in your bookmarks. Edit: How about writing a translation? Would it be legal to republish? Re-edit: apparently that would be fine, it's well out of copyright.
How to get our cycle trip paid for: sit, think and solve.
How many orders a night do we need to be getting before we can afford to hire a really friendly-sounding secretary?
It would be very easy to convert on all cigarette sales that we currently drop by just saying, instead of "It has to be part of an alcohol order", "The delivery fee is higher without alcohol, that's going to be 9.50 including delivery instead of the usual 7.50, is that ok?"
You can use colour to show the relationship between items in up to four different variables in a way that is both very easy to understand and very quickly assimilated as well as being almost trivially implemented in a browser. i.e. RGB(x,y,z,a) Come to think of it this is actually much better suited to an HLS model.
Don't give people un-earned respect. *****
Set short term deadlines for everything, never expect anyone to do anything that takes more than a couple of days all on their own. *****
Pain, anguish, despair are still sensation, and sensation is a miracle.
"Cause sometimes you just feel tired, you feel weak, and when you feel weak, you feel like you wanna just give up, but you've gotta search within you, you've gotta find that inner strength and just pull that shit out of you and get that motivation to not give up and not be a quitter, no matter how bad you wanna just fall flat on your face and collapse." - Eminem, Till I Collapse
"“The final key to the way I promote is bravado. I play to people's fantasies. People may not always think big themselves, but they can still get very excited by those who do. That's why a little hyperbole never hurts.”" - Donald Trump
"“With out passion you dont have energy, with out energy you have nothing.”" - Donald Trump
"“As long as your going to be thinking anyway, think big.”" - Donald Trump
"“Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.”" - Aaron Burr
"“The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.”" - Aaron Burr
Write a program to teach people to card count. Advertise it on video sites showing 21. Rake in more than 1% ;)
Money is nothing.
Never, ever, lie to your friends, if you can't admit something you're doing to them then you shouldn't be doing it, and if they can't accept something you've done they shouldn't be your friends.
Taking a set of financial instruments and determining rules for relating their characteristics to their indices and vice versa.
How to programmatically shorten company names to 6 letter acronyms in the same way that a human would.
http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/teaching/bacompsci/PartB/studentproject.html
There are two methods of ensuring that you're working hard: to ensure that you spend every available moment working, or to ensure that every task gets completed. Those who adhere to the former are slaves.
"Because he pays close attention, a Navy pilot can land a 40,000 lb. aircraft at 140 miles per hour on a pitching carrier deck, at night, more safely than the average teenager can cut a bagel." - Paul Graham, I've quoted it before but it deserves reiteration.
Choose a job that you love and you'll never truly work a day in your life. Choose a job that you hate and you'll never truly work a day in your life.
http://www.syrianarabic.com/contents.html
http://lexicorient.com/babel/arabic/index.htm
ethernet library for arduino
"Early to bed and early to rise, work like hell and advertise." - Ted Turner
Idea for a really useful tool: can give it a url in an input field and it will generate that page with a bar along the bottom with a list of input fields for each of the get variables (and an option to add boxes for specified post variables) and a submit button that just reloads the page above using ajax. Would turn static development applications into useful tools. Note for security reasons the browser will restrict this to including urls from the same domain.
Big business happens in big cities and that's slow because the distances are too big. (Sometimes true)
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
"For us there is only the trying. The rest is not our business." - T.S. Eliot
"The classic startup is fast and informal, with few people and little money. Those few people work very hard, and technology magnifies the effect of the decisions they make. If they win, they win big." - Paul Graham
"What big companies do instead of implementing features is plan them. At Viaweb we sometimes ran into trouble on this account. Investors and analysts would ask us what we had planned for the future. The truthful answer would have been, we didn't have any plans. We had general ideas about things we wanted to improve, but if we knew how we would have done it already. What were we going to do in the next six months? Whatever looked like the biggest win. I don't know if I ever dared give this answer, but that was the truth. Plans are just another word for ideas on the shelf. When we thought of good ideas, we implemented them. At Viaweb, as at many software companies, most code had one definite owner. But when you owned something you really owned it: no one except the owner of a piece of software had to approve (or even know about) a release. There was no protection against breakage except the fear of looking like an idiot to one's peers, and that was more than enough. I may have given the impression that we just blithely plowed forward writing code. We did go fast, but we thought very carefully before we released software onto those servers. And paying attention is more important to reliability than moving slowly. Because he pays close attention, a Navy pilot can land a 40,000 lb. aircraft at 140 miles per hour on a pitching carrier deck, at night, more safely than the average teenager can cut a bagel. This way of writing software is a double-edged sword of course. It works a lot better for a small team of good, trusted programmers than it would for a big company of mediocre ones, where bad ideas are caught by committees instead of the people that had them. " - Paul Graham
Death before inconvenience.
Talk to MUZU.TV they make money through advertising but in order to do that they need content. We can encourage people to upload content to their site which will be beneficial to us, since there will be more high quality content available on a platform that isn't youtube so we can actually do some advertising. It will help them because they're currently a nobody. In exchange we need them to give us unlimited views and guarantee not to show adverts on videos streamed to us.
Move everything on the control bar underneath the playlists on the left
Transmit news on the kplayer using the error function with different properties. Goodnight.
Extend musings so that other people can use it, each with their own account. Intended to be used for entrepeneurial-style ideas. We can then build in the facility to share some thoughts with others to generate a sort of freeform thinking space to which we can invite anyone whose ideas are likely to be valuable or interesting. By providing them with an easy way to write down their thoughts we are getting those thoughts for free.
Boredom is a symptom of laziness.
Is it really important?
What we receive is worth so much more than we would ever pay for it.
There are people for whom business is their social life. Whilst you have a real social life, avoid these people.
Most of our literary heroes were civilised alcoholics.
Don't give people un-earned respect.
I'm not sure about the truth of what I've just written below, it requires some re-reading and careful thought.
Bob Greenberg talks evangelically about aggregation plus functionality and the value that this provides in the web sphere. This is the same premise that large, successful companies have always followed: use lots of people and combine their efforts with a bit of business machinery to ensure that their efforts are only valuable when directed through you. The only difference between the web sphere and the traditional business model is that huge amounts of information is freely available and easily accessible on the internet so aggregation becomes much easier: in traditional business models we have to pay people to aggregate their labours but if the fruit of their labours can be infinitely reproduced with no effort on their behalf, this is no longer necessary. Thus he's right, aggregation and functionality are massively powerful tools on the internet but we must remember that these are NOT a new revenue model, they are merely an extension of old business processes and can only be used to support a revenue model, however brilliantly.
The most useful illustrative tool ever invented is a blank sheet of paper. It has no features yet anything is possible.
Multiple track select and drag
Increase responsiveness, status messages, why's it not playing? What's youtube doing? One-click track indication, scrolling with arrow keys
White flags are for the french.
iPhone app: scrubs-style sex gong
Diversify: Keep lots of projects on the go and DON'T LET ANY OF THEM TAKE TOO LONG, the more of your life a project takes up the more important it is that it succeeds. You do not want to leave university without a successful business and there are only finite odds of any business succeeding so you want to have tried lots of things.
Always respond to ANYTHING a user does, even if you're not going to do anything useful with it
Put the user in control: if it is ever possible to allow THEM to make a decision (without forcing them to), then do so, promote user FREEDOM
Set short term deadlines for everything, never expect anyone to do anything that takes more than a couple of days all on their own
No more smokeing or chewing
No wasting time at Shafters or [a name, indicipherable]
Make donation automatic when you play a song?
Put people in a position where they feel obliged to donate
Force people to donate?
Open up our own nite bite restaurants
Talk to the labels about giving them the money
Red leather. + + +
if my friends have already given the money in then it costs them nothing to donate!
We need to start a culture of it, this can only be done by widespread acceptance.
Have donations appear on facebook, if the user wants them to.
Ask all my friends to make a donation whether they approve or not, call in favours.
Donations are not intrinsically linked to charity, this is a mindset, we can still donate money in exchange for a service.
We take donations but we are NOT a charitable institution.
Get this drunk every night.
Search for everyone who's ever said "I would've given money to them if I could" and chase them up on it
Skip my lecture.
Write down five bad ideas every morning.
I just wrote a program in my second year of university that was simply a translation of something I wrote with my dad when I was eight, what does that say about me, my family and my degree?
The only difference between things that can go wrong and things that can't go wrong is that when things that can't go wrong do go wrong they're extremely difficult to fix or replace.
I want music I know played by DJs I don't.
Capitalism rewards people not for the work that they do but for the benefit that they bring to others. Those who work very hard for little reward must understand that this is an indication that their energies are misdirected. It is perfectly possible for man to succeed in a capitalist society with little work required by making correct, bold decisions in the right situations and this, far from being a flaw in capitalism, is a benefit, since these decisions are actually worth, in terms of the benefit they provide to society, the success they bring those who make them.
"Help, I've escaped from Kevin Spacey's basement! Help me! Hah, I am so outrageous, gimme the cash. Cold in here? Nope, just really small..." - Family Guy
Dammed if you do, dammed if you don't. Fuck it, lets just get pissed
"The world is mine" - David Guetta
Kinks and kisses, sandals, skin, summers and sunsets.
Sinatra, cigars, leathers, limousines, collars and creases.
I feel like a goldfish in the ocean, there are lots of big fish everywhere and I have a memory span of three seconds. This is very inconvenient.
In a group situation there are those who are in control of the atmosphere and actions in the group but they are a minority, the majority of the group consists of those who are merely participants. As participants they do not have the power to affect the actions of those around them. What is more, the atmosphere, generated by those in control, in such a group situation, especially one involving alcohol, is infectious and affects the actions of those within the group. As such, those involved but not in control, whilst still certainly culpable for their own actions, are not in any way culpable for failing to prevent the actions of the group because such attempts at prevention would be both futile and incredibly difficult to perform under the influence of the group atmosphere. Whilst I appreciate that much bad press for the College has been generated by these proceedings such extensive punitive actions merely put powers which should remain with the college into the hands of the thrill-seeking authors of the yellow journalism that the Cherwell chooses to publish. These people do not have the best interests of the College at heart and to allow them to bait it into action is ill-concieved and destructive.
Bob Dylan's music video for Subterranean Homesick Blues, standing on the edge of a cliff/bridge, can't see down, just see the drops as in his, final shot pans down, no wind, stream of sheets fluttering down.
If it can make your job easier, it can probably make it irrelevant.
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take, and, from experience, 99% of the shots you do. And yet.
"That which does not kill me postpones the inevitable." - Stolen
Image isn't important, it's everything. I'm sure this is stolen from an advert somewhere but google disagrees. Edit: Apparently the original is a '63 quotation by Ben Sherman "Looking good isn't important, it's everything". Much less inspiring. Possible rewording: "Perception is everything." - Terry Goodkind, apparently (who?)
"Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty... I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well." - Theodore Roosevelt
Nothing worth having comes easily.
Alternative endings to an unwritten poem, possibly entitled "The End is Nigh", although that might require a few more tongue-in-cheek clichéd similes, perhaps "Procrastination 'till the Last" would be more appropriate.
The familiar buffer of indulgent time wears thin; the final grain of sand hangs on a razor edge of glass, then falls.
The deliberating clock, obliging, with sympathetic feeling, slows, then halts. A lonely grain of sand joins its fallen comrades.
One last, lonely moment, a drop of dew hanging from a blade of grass, slipping slowly, inexorably, toward fated freedom.
Avoid the tedium, do the unexpected, make every minute count because every minute that doesn't count can be brought back to haunt you, you may only remember the best individual moments but if they're merely interspersed in tedious mediocrity you will remember the existence of that mediocrity and lament the wasted opportunity.
"Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose a three-piece suit on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourselves. Choose your future. Choose life... But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin' else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got heroin?" - Trainspotting
"Theres no such thing as a winnable war. It's a lie that we dont believe anymore." - Sting, Russians
Diversify.
"Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative" - Oscar Wilde
"If you really want to know what a woman means, which is dangerous, always look at her but never listen." - Oscar Wilde
"If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack." - Winston Churchill
It's not what you do, it's how you do it.
Keep moving. As soon as you stop your assumptions and failures can catch up with you. As long as you never stop progressing, the mistakes of your past are glossed over by the successes of the present. Even if those successes fall apart under scrutiny, as long as you never rest on your laurels there will never fail to be more to succeed them.
Solus pecunia est
"What's worth the prize is always worth the fight" - Nickelback
"We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars." - Oscar Wilde
"Good, better, best, never let it rest, 'till your good is better and your better best." - Written on 'Furphy' water carts in Australia
"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If it works, it's obsolete." - Marshall McLuhan
Racing through life fast, just hoping that the track will open up before us, straight and clear.
We're the Enron kids, spending money we know we'll earn someday.
Though I've lived a thousand lives, sold a thousand stories, roamed a thousand roads, there's nothing really real 'cept that friendly, lonesome rat-race I call home. Fighting for a living 'cos fighting's who we are, it's what we do. If all the world's a stage then London is my ring that draws me back for each unremitting bout of massochistic thrill.
"You wanna know if I'm moral enough to join the army, burn women, kids, houses and villages after being a litter bug." - Arlo Guthrie
"A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude." - Oscar Wilde
"If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there." - Lewis Carroll
"If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you." - Oscar Wilde
"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination." - Oscar Wilde
"Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb." - Churchill
"The LRC is an educational disaster. Here, where books are merely “learning resources”, reading is about functional literacy instead of pleasure. A paperclip is a learning resource. Google Earth is a learning resource. But a book is “the distilled essence of a human soul”. A book is something you take to bed with you. It is not a learning resource any more than a kiss is a coordinated interpersonal labial spasm." - Google it.
What's actually important?
Onward ever 'till you meet your match, then the ruinous fires will catch.
To strive, to fail or to succeed, Man can subscribe to but one creed. Happiness can only be, Achieved by the former of the three.
The world flings those of least content, up into the firmament.
A man, alone and unsuccessful, dies. The clamour for the victor masks his cries.
Golden days, moving on, life flies by 'neath the glowing sun.
Take to the road no looking back, nothing lasts, life fades to black.
"You know there is no more record business, I don't know if you know that, but this is it, playing live, but you know what, I think that's what it's all supposed to be about anyway. It used to be you'd play a show just to promote your record but now we're really just putting out records to promote our shows so we're glad you're here, thanks for coming." - Marc Cohn
"When a man does exactly what a woman expects him to do she doesn't think much of him. One should always do what a woman doesn't expect, just as one should say what she doesn't understand." - Oscar Wilde
How can you convince people to be cultured, to take three hours for dinner, to get a cocktail in the restaurant's bar to whet their appetite, to follow with a coffee, to go to a restaurant that they can't afford and quietly foot the bill for the table? Money, time, good company So convince the movers, the new, the interesting, the beautiful Passion for their jobs but time to escape from them Fundamental phsychological shift, make people want to be that person and make it possible
The rain it raineth all the time, upon the just and unjust fella. But mainly on the just because the unjust has the just's unbrella. So get out there, you lazy bum, and cheat some other worthless scum.
I want the last cheque I write to bounce.
Think big
The problem with so-called high quality modern programming is that it looks at the problem from a point of view that understands the tools available better than it understands the task at hand. This was applicable when computing power and abstraction was poor and pandering to these inadequacies was important but such times are behind us now, the logical conclusion to the abstraction movement is to design an ideal solution to a problem as it would exist in a world without limitations. This solution is now almost always attainable for most problems. A solution to a real world problem that is going to be publicly visible should be addressed initially from the point of view of an end-user. This gives rise to the idea of building a solution not from the base up but rather from the UI down.
"There is no more new frontier, we have got to make it here." - The Eagles, The Last Resort
"In the end, we will not remember the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
"So put me on a highway and show me a sign and take it to the limit one more time" - The Eagles
"Flu is very much nature's way of freeing up seafront property in Eastbourne." - Dara O'Briain
Technological releases should be easily extensible and either trivially upgradable or disposable.
Don't fear death, fear obscurity, death is inevitable.
"The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity. But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable." - Oscar Wilde
"No gentleman ever has any money." - Oscar Wilde