Be so good they can’t ignore you.
Said during an interview on the Charlie Rose show after being asked his advice for aspiring performers:
Nobody ever takes note of [my advice], because it’s not the answer they wanted to hear. What they want to hear is, “Here’s how you get an agent, here’s how you write a script,” … but I always say, “Be so good they can’t ignore you.'”
~ Steve Martin
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Objects in mirror are closer than they appear.
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…if you manage to bust a fuel element, the best outcome is that huge amounts of radioactivity escape into the air and blow over Japan, just like before. The worst outcome is when two of these things get too close, perhaps because in pulling one out it breaks and falls against another one in the tank. Because then you suddenly have lots of fission, a lot of heat, a meltdown, possibly a big blast like before, and the destruction of the entire cooling pond. Or else the water boils off and the whole thing catches fire.
~ From, «http://www.redflagnews.com/headlines/alert-fukushima-worse-than-chernobyl-now-in-crisis»
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I tire of responding to those. Let me offer one response that applies to all of them: I don’t trust my government, I don’t trust the people who work for my government, and I believe that the evidence suggests that it’s irrational to offer such trust.
~ Ken White from, «http://www.popehat.com/2013/08/20/faced-with-the-security-state-groklaw-opts-out/»
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Many people are super busy, and distracted, because busy-ness and distraction feels productive, and isn’t boring.
Smokers don’t want to quit smoking, because it helps them deal with stress.
What do all these people have in common?
They rely on crutches.
~ Leo Babauta from, Simplify: Let Go of Your Crutches – Zen Habits Website
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Just in case you thought it was fairly new, it’s probably(*) older than you. Here’s a deep link, to a down-the-rabbit-hole discussion. Seems most sources attribute a 1968 conference, while the author of this message from the Software Craftsmanship group has dug up an ACM article from 1966.
* …and probably significantly older than you since the average age of the entire world population is definitely less than Software Engineering’s 47 years (and counting.)
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It turns out that we don’t know the procedure. We haven’t got any clue to just how difficult the procedure is. We aren’t computers. We don’t follow procedures. And so comparing the complexity of the manual task, to the complexity of the procedure is invalid.
~ Uncle Bob Martin from, Clean Coder Blog
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For decades, science fiction writers and various space scientists have pointed out that asteroids offer a huge untapped source of valuable resources. Bringing just a small portion of this back to Earth could be a game changer for our planet.
~ from, «http://www.technologyreview.com/view/518046/new-class-of-easily-retrievable-asteroids-discovered/»
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Now you understand why Peter Pan didn’t want to grow up.
~ unknown
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Another step closer to done; backsplash tile!
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